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Title
[Lottie
Stamper]
Creator
United States. Indian Arts and Crafts Board
Medium of Original
photographs
Date of Orginal
1970/1979
Dimensions
8" x 10"
Description
Lottie
Queen
Stamper
(1907-1987)
is
one
of
Cherokee's
best-known
basket
weavers
. In this
photograph
,
made
for the
Indian
Arts
and
Craft
Board
,
Stamper
is
shown
making
a
rivercane
basket
in the
double
weave
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
.
Stamper
has
finished
working
the
basket
upward
and has
turned
it
upside
down
on her
lap
to
finish
it
at its
base
. The
basket
has been
dyed
to
create
dark
circular
bands
around
its
outside
. At
right
,
over
her
shoulder
, are
cut
lengths
of
rivercane
ready
for
weaving
.
Born
in the
Soco
community
to
Levi
and
Mary
Queen
,
Lottie
Queen
first
learned
how to
make
white
oak
and
pine
needle
baskets
from her
mother
. She
married
into a
family
that
taught
her how to
make
baskets
from
rivercane
. In
1935
, at the
age
of
28
, she
started
making
cane
baskets
. In
1937
she
began
teaching
basketmaking
at the
Cherokee
School
.
Over
her
teaching
career
, she
taught
hundreds
of
girls
to
weave
baskets
.
While
the
date
of this
particular
photograph
is
not
known
,
Stamper
made
baskets
from
1917
to
1987
.
Subject - Topic
Cherokee women -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Subject - Craft
Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Basketwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Craft Category
basketry
Time Period
1970s
Location
Cherokee Indian Reservation (N.C.)
Source Institution
Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual
Collection
Photograph
Collection
Inventory Number
QACM_Stamper_Lottie_02
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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