Add to ORKGThis undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph shows Lucy George beginning to weave a honeysuckle basket. George is laying out a white oak framework; she will weave the honeysuckle vine over that. Lucy Nola George (1897-1978) was a well-known Cherokee basket weaver who specialized in honeysuckle basketry. She was born Lucy Nola and grew up in the Birdtown community, her father was George Squirrel. Her mother, Rebecca Taylor knew how to make baskets. In a departure from traditional Cherokee ways of learning, Lucy George did not learn basket making from mother. In the 1930s, as a grown woman, she learned the craft from Julia Taylor. She developed her own methods, using honeysuckle, a material considered to be of little value. As...
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