Basket: white oak, fruit

Basket: white oak, fruit

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Handicraft

This black and white photograph is of a white oak fruit basket was made by Cherokee basket weaver Annie Wolfe James. Annie Wolfe was born in 1936 into a family of basket weavers. Her mother was Minda Wolfe (Minda Hill Sequoyah Wolfe, 1897-1983). Her aunt, Alice Sequoyah Walkingstick demonstrated basketry at the Oconaluftee Indian Village. She and her four sisters made white oak and rib-constructed baskets. The ribbed white oak basket shown here was dyed with walnut, bloodroot and yellowroot achieve a natural coloration. The name of the photographer is unknown.

James, Annie Wolfe, 1936-

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Photograph Collection

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

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16446

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2009-03-10

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

5" x 6.75"(dimension)

Craft Revival