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| Title | [Mat: rivercane, wall] |
| Identifier | QACM_2006_024 |
| Format | craft object
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| Date Created | 1920/1980 |
| Dimensions | 14 x 13.5 |
| Description | The rivercane wall mat was made by Rowena Bradley, who was born in the Swimmer Branch Community of the Qualla Indian Boundary, near Cherokee, North Carolina. Butternut was used to achieve the brown color; bloodroot produced the orange. The weave pattern is known as Coffin (or Casket) because of its rectangular shape. The "coffins" run diagonally across the face of the mat. Rowena Bradley is the daughter of Henry and Nancy George Bradley, also an accomplished basket maker. Basketmaking was a family tradition; her father gathered rivercane and dug roots for dye materials. Rowena learned to weave baskets as a child by watching her mother. Later, her mother taught her the complex double weave technique. While the date of this particular wall mat is not known, Rowena Bradley made baskets from 1920 to 1980. |
| Subject - Topic | Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern
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| Subject - Craft | Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Basketwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern
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| Craft Category | basketry
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| Decade | 1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
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| County | Cherokee Indian Reservation, N.C.
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| Creator | Bradley, Rowena, 1922-2003
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| Source Institution | Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual
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| Collection | Artifact Collection |
| Copyright Information | All rights reserved. Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, Inc., Cherokee, North Carolina. |
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