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A country store on a dirt road near Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939
A country store on a dirt road near Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939. Dorothea Lange. Library of Congress, public domain.
We used to have plenty of cane right by the river, but they’ve been building so many roads by the river they’ve just destroyed our river. We have to go clear to Tennessee to get our cane.

Emma Taylor Carolinian

Source

Interview, 1977; quoted in M. Anna Fariello, Cherokee Basketry: From the Hands of Our Elders (2009), Cherokee Traditions, Hunter Library, Western Carolina University

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interview
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Cherokee Basketry: From the Hands of Our Elders
year
1977

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I was about seven years old when I learned how to make baskets from watching my mother. Whenever Mother would sit out there in the yard, she’d be taking out splints. I’d gather up all those short ones, and I’d try to make a basket. I couldn’t make them at the beginning. My mother, she didn’t really teach me how to make the basket; I learned how to make a basket just by seeing.
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