Five (5) Native American Cherokee basket related items, including one (1) fruit basket form with honeysuckle vine weavers by Lucy Nola George (1897-1978), retains the original Qualla Arts tag; one (1) wastebasket form with walnut and bloodroot dyed honeysuckle vine weavers by Martha Junaluska Taylor (d. 2014), retains the original Qualla Arts tag; one (1) wastebasket form walnut dyed white oak weavers by Amanda Elaine Smoker (1916-2010), retains the original Qualla Arts tag; one (1) wastebasket form with walnut and bloodroot dyed rivercane weavers; and one (1) copy of CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS AND CRAFTSMAN OF THE EASTERN BAND OF CHEROKEE INDIANS, with an introduction by Stephen Richmond and history by Mollie Blankenship, compiled and published by Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, Inc., Cherokee, N. C., 1987 with entry describing basketry by Lucy Nola George and the Taylor Family. Ranging in size from 4 3/8" H x 10" dia. to 13 3/8" H x 13 1/4" dia.

Private Nashville, TN Collection.

Three baskets in overall very good condition. Rivercane wastebasket with surface grime and scattered breaks and losses to weavers. Book in overall good condition with minor staining to scattered pages.