Basket: white oak, purse

Description

This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph depicts white oak purse baskets that were made by Carol Welch utilizing techniques and patterns usually associated with rivercane. The pattern is called the Chief’s Heart. Carol Smith Welch was the daughter of Helen Bradley Smith, an accomplished Cherokee basket weaver. Her aunt, Eva Bradley, was also a basket weaver. Born in 1940, Welch learned to weave white oak baskets by watching her mother and later learned to weave rivercane and honeysuckle baskets from Lottie Stamper in school basketry classes. While at school, she also learned the double weave method of making rivercane baskets and, later, became Lottie Stamper’s assistant. Her husband, Davis Welch, is a master mask maker. Welch lives in the Big Cove Community of the Qualla Indian Boundary, North Carolina.
Details
- Creator
  - United States. Indian Arts and Crafts Board
  - Welch, Carol
- Format
  - Photographs
- Type
  - StillImage
- Date
  - Date original: 1980
  - Date digitized: 2009-03-31
- Extent
  - Dimension: 8" x 10"
- Subject - Topic
- Location
  - Qualla Boundary
  - Appalachian Region, Southern
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - Photograph Collection
- Identifier
  - QACM_Welch_Carol_09
- Repository
  - Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual

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