Add to ORKGThis shopping basket, a double weave rivercane basket with a white oak handle, was made by accomplished Cherokee basket weaver, Eva Queen Wolfe (1922-2004) and photographed by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board in 1968. The 18" high basket is made in a pattern known as Eye of the Sacred Bird. Living and working in the Big Cove community northeast of Cherokee, Eva Wolfe was a master basket weaver who specialized in baskets made from rivercane. She was born in 1922 in the Soco Community of the Qualla Boundary and studied basket weaving in high school under her aunt, Lottie Queen Stamper. Over the course of her lifetime, Wolfe won many local and national awards in recognition of her work. These included numerous prizes in competitions at t...
