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Title	[Basket: rivercane, storage]
Creator	Youngbird, Edmund, 1922-1995
Medium of Original	crafts
Date of Orginal	unknown
Dimensions	22" x 19" x 20"
Description	This large rivercane storage basket was made by Edmund Youngbird (1922-1995). Baskets such as these were made to store domestic goods, from dry foodstuffs to clothing. The natural aeration of the single weave allows the stored goods to remain dry. The basket is woven from rivercane that was dyed with butternut and bloodroot, plants native to the region. The butternut-dyed rivercane is brown; the fainter orange cane is from bloodroot. The basket is woven upward from a rectangular base with a central dominant design set on the diagonal. The circumference of the basket tapers inward before flaring out again at the rim. A series of bands surrounds the top third of the basket, alternating between butternut and bloodroot dyed cane in a linked Chain design. Traditionally Cherokee basket makers are women; Youngbird being one of the few male weavers. Youngbird learned to weave rivercane baskets from his grandmother, Lizzie "Nannie" Stamper Youngbird.
Subject - Topic	Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Subject - Craft	Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Craft Category	basketry
Location	Cherokee Indian Reservation (N.C.)
Source Institution	Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual
Collection	Artifact Collection
Inventory Number	QACM_1992_046
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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