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Title	[Basket: rivercane, market]
Creator	Bradley, Nancy George, 1881-1963
Medium of Original	crafts
Date of Orginal	1952
Dimensions	10.5" x 11" x 6"
Description	This rivercane shopping basket or market basket, also called a “shopper,” was made by Nancy George Bradley from Painttown, North Carolina. Shopping Baskets like this one were carried to market. The interlocking handle of this shopper is woven directly into the basket, giving it a sturdiness to hold weight. The river cane splits were dyed using walnut for the brown color and butternut for the yellow. Woven in the single weave technique, the basket pattern is Cross on the Hill, sometimes called Stairway to Heaven. Nancy George Bradley was a second-generation basket weaver who taught her children to weave as well. Her mother was Mary Dobson; her daughter, Rowena Bradley; both accomplished basket weavers. Nancy Bradley spoke Cherokee, not English, and lived with her husband and 8 children in the Big Cove community near Cherokee, North Carolina. While this basket was made after the Craft Revival period, it remains a late example of work produced during the period.
Subject - Topic	Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Subject - Craft	Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Subject - Group	Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina
Craft Category	basketry
Time Period	1950s
Location	Cherokee Indian Reservation (N.C.)
Source Institution	Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual
Collection	Artifact Collection
Inventory Number	QACM_1992_073
Copyright Information	All rights reserved. For permissions and use, contact Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, Inc., Cherokee, NC 28719
Digital Publisher	Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

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