Basket: honeysuckle, handled

Basket: honeysuckle, handled

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Handicraft

This undated basket was made by Cherokee basket weaver Lucy George. The basket is honeysuckle woven over white oak splints with two carved drop handles attached to the base. A small handled basket such as this one can be used as a purse. Larger handled baskets such as these are sometimes called shoppers. The walnut-dyed honeysuckle is brown; the fainter orange is from bloodroot. Both plants, used by Cherokee basket weavers to make dye, are native to the region. This basket won a first place ribbon in 1975. Lucy Nola George 1897-1978) was raised in the Birdtown community on the Qualla Boundary. In a departure from traditional Cherokee ways of learning, Lucy George did not learn basket making from mother. In the 1930s, as a grown woman, she learned the craft from Julia Taylor. She developed her own methods, weaving baskets from honeysuckle. She also taught others and demonstrated her craft.

George, Lucy Nola, 1897-1978

Artifact Collection

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

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StillImage

16089

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2009-05-15

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

14" x 13" x 7.5"(dimension)

Craft Revival