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[Basket: rivercane, storage]

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Title	[Basket: rivercane, storage]
Creator	United States. Indian Arts and Crafts Board Bradley, Rowena, 1922-2003
Medium of Original	photographs
Date of Orginal	unknown
Dimensions	10" x 8"
Description	This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph is of a single weave rivercane basket by Cherokee basket maker, Rowena Bradley. The large basket was begun from a square base and woven outward before tapering in to a circular reinforced rim. Baskets of this shape served multiple domestic uses; the photograph identifies this as a waste basket. The rivercane basket is woven in a pattern known as Noon Day Sun. The photograph is labeled, "A wastebasket, plaited in rivercane in the noon day sun design and dyed with butternut root and blood root, By Rowena Bradley of the painttown community of Qualla Indian Boundery, Cherokee, North Carolina."
Subject - Topic	Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Subject - Craft	Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Craft Category	basketry
Location	Cherokee Indian Reservation (N.C.)
Source Institution	Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual
Collection	Photograph Collection
Inventory Number	QACM_Bradley_Rowena_04
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