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Hill, Sarah H. "Cherokee Patterns: Interweaving Women Had Baskets in History," Emory University, January 1991. Advisor: Allen Tullos (11, 13, 3)
From approximately 1400 A.D. to the present, Southeastern Cherokee basketweavers, usually women, developed four major basketry traditions, three of them in the last 150 years. Each tradition is based on a different material—rivercane, white oak, honeysuckle, and maple. The incorporation of new materials and the development of new basketry traditions have occurred in the context of lived experiences, ecological processes, social conditions, economic circumstances, and historical events. Examination of cherokee basketry traditions elucidates historical transformations in Cherokee culture, and illuminates interrelationships between material objects and the society producing them.
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