Basket: honeysuckle, sewing

Basket: honeysuckle, sewing

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Handicraft

It is not known who made this undated brightly dyed 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 is thought to be dyed with bloodroot to yield the orange bands that run up the sides of the basket. Bloodroot, used by Cherokee basket weavers to make dye, is a plant native to the region. But the bright yellow color may be from yellowroot.

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Artifact Collection

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

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16084

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/16084

2009-05-15

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

basket: 4" x 4.5" x 4.5"(dimension)

lid: 1.5" x 4" x 4"(dimension)

Craft Revival