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| Title | [Rowena Bradley] |
| Identifier | QACM_Bradley_Rowena_01 |
| Format | photograph
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| Date Created | 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
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| Subject - Craft | Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Basketwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern
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| Subject - Group | Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina
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| Craft Category | basketry
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| County | Cherokee Indian Reservation, N.C.
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| Creator | United States. Indian Arts and Crafts Board
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| Source Institution | Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual
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| Collection | Photograph Collection |
| Copyright Information | All rights reserved. Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, Inc., Cherokee, North Carolina.; |
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