Basket: honeysuckle, lidded

Basket: honeysuckle, lidded

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Handicraft

It is not known who made this lidded basket in the permanent collection of Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual. The basket is made from honeysuckle woven over white oak ribs. The woven lid, with wrapped handle, fits over the base. Traditionally, storage baskets were made to store domestic goods, from dry foodstuffs to clothing. The natural aeration of the weave allows the stored goods to remain dry. Often, lidded baskets of this shape and size were used as sewing baskets; the smaller ones were known as button baskets. The honeysuckle was dyed with walnut to yield the brown color that runs up the side of the basket. Walnut, used by Cherokee basket weavers to make dye, is native to the region. The date of this basket is unknown.

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Artifact Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

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crafts (art genres)

StillImage

16076

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2009-05-15

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

6" x 6" x 6"(dimension)

Craft Revival