Mat: honeysuckle

Mat: honeysuckle

Basket making

Basketwork

Cherokee baskets

Handicraft

This honeysuckle mat was woven by Lucy Nola George (1897-1978), a well-known Cherokee basket weaver who specialized in honeysuckle basketry. She was born Lucy Nola in 1897. Raised in the Birdtown community, her father was George Squirrel. Her mother, Rebecca Taylor knew how to make baskets. 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, using honeysuckle, a material considered to be of little value.

George, Lucy Nola, 1897-1978

Artifact Collection

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

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crafts (art genres)

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

10.25 x 10.25 x 0.25"(dimension)

Craft Revival