Basket: honeysuckle, storage

Basket: honeysuckle, storage

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Handicraft

It is not known for certain who made this storage brightly dyed basket in the permanent collection of Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual. The basket may have been made by Cherokee basket weaver Lucy George. The basket is honeysuckle woven over white oak splints. The basket shape begins with a round base and was woven upward and outward. 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. The honeysuckle was dyed with walnut to yield the brown color. 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

16077

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/16077

2009-05-15

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

12" x 11" x 10"(dimension)

Craft Revival