Basket: rivercane, lidded

Basket: rivercane, lidded

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Handicraft

This lidded doubleweave rivercane basket was made by Lottie Queen Stamper (1907-1987) and photographed by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board. The basket is modeled after an 18th century Cherokee basket in the collection of the British Museum. In 1940 after someone gave Stamper a photograph of this basket and she carefully worked out the complex doubleweave technique. A double weave basket is really two baskets, one inside the other. The basket weaver begins at the base of the inside basket, working upward to the rim where the cane is bent downward; the outside is woven from top to base. Afterward learning the method herself, Stamper shared the doubleweave technique with students. She taught basketry classes from 1937 until 1966.

Stamper, Lottie Queen, 1907-1987

United States. Indian Arts and Crafts Board

publication

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

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crafts (art genres)

StillImage

16197

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/16197

2009-01-22

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

8" x 10"(dimension)

Craft Revival