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Title
[Rowena
Bradley]
Creator
United States. Indian Arts and Crafts Board
Medium of Original
photographs
Date of Orginal
unknown
Dimensions
10" x 8"
Description
This
undated
Indian
Arts
and
Crafts
Board
photograph
shows
Rowena
Bradley
preparing
to
work
on a
rivercane
basket
. On the
ground
beside
her
is
a
pile
of
rivercane
,
already
cut
and
split
.
Born
in
1922
in the
Swimmer
Branch
Community
of the
Qualla
Indian
Boundary
, as a
child
,
Rowena
Bradley
learned
to
weave
baskets
by
watching
her
mother
.
Later
, her
mother
taught
her the
complex
double
weave
technique
. A
third
generation
basket
weaver
,
both
her
grandmother
,
Mary
Dobson
, and her
mother
,
Nancy
George
Bradley
, were
accomplished
basket
makers
.
Basketmaking
was a
family
tradition
; her
father
,
Henry
Bradley
gathered
rivercane
and
dug
roots
for
dye
materials
.
Photograph
is
labeled
, "
Rowena
Bradley
a
Cherokee
Indian
Rivercane
Basket
Maker
from the
big
y
Community
Cherokee
Indian
Reservation
.
Cherokee
,
N.C.
"
Subject - Topic
Artisans -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Cherokee women -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Subject - Craft
Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Basketwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Subject - Group
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina
Craft Category
basketry
Location
Cherokee Indian Reservation (N.C.)
Source Institution
Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual
Collection
Photograph
Collection
Inventory Number
QACM_Bradley_Rowena_01
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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