Lucille Lossiah and Cherokee (Eastern Band)
Basket
Cherokee (Eastern Band), 1992
Scroll
Physical Qualities
White oak withes, walnut and bloodroot dyes, 8 9/16 × 10 1/2 × 9 7/16 (wide at handles) in. (21.7 × 26.7 × 24 cm.)
21.7 cm. high; 24 cm. diam; 26.7 cm. wide at handles
Credit Line
Gift of Mary Cumming, Baltimore
Object Number
1993.201
Circular basket with circular base; circular handle attached to wooden insert on either side of basket; natural colored withes at top and bottom and for handles; central decorative band has alternating 'wefts' of natural and pale brown withes. Wicker-plaited
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1993; Mary Cumming, by purchase from Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, Inc.
Inscribed: described as a 'planter' on original tag.
Artist/Maker
Lucille Lossiah
(Eastern Band Cherokee) born 1957, Painttown Community, Cherokee, North Carolina
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