Nancy Conseen

Nancy Conseen

Artisans

Basket making

Basketwork

Cherokee baskets

Cherokee women

Handicraft

Nancy Conseen (1929-1997) was born in Cherokee, North Carolina on the eve of the Great Depression. When she was just six years old, she learned to weave white oak and honeysuckle baskets from her mother, Caroline Conseen. In school she learned to make rivercane baskets from Lottie Stamper. In this photograph, Conseen is weaving a basket for Joan Mondale (standing, center), wife of Vice President Mondale. The photograph was made on June 7, 1977 when Mrs. Mondale attended the ground breaking of the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, NC. Mondale was accompanied by the wife of the U.S. Senator from North Carolina, Robert B. Morgan, and Lana Gudger, wife of Vonno Lamar Gudger, a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina's 11th District. Looking on (third from left) is Cherokee craft advocate Molly Blankenship. The photograph was likely taken by David Gaynes.

Gaynes, David

Photographic Media

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

1977-06-07

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photographs

StillImage

16503

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2010-09-14

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

4" x 5"(dimension)

Craft Revival