AMAZING ROWENA BRADLEY(b1922)DOUBLE WEAVE RIVERCANE BASKET,FLOWING WATER,EXCELL!

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AMAZING ROWENA BRADLEY (1922-2003) DOUBLE WEAVE RIVERCANE BASKET, FLOWING WATER
An incredibly beautiful Rowena Bradley Double Weave Rivercane Basket with her classic exceptional Flowing Water design and glowing patina.
Rowena was a master and prolific Cherokee basket maker.  She and Eva Wolfe were the best of the best at their craft during the 2nd half of the 20th C.  There’s a description of this particular basket in pic #11.
Amazing ROWENA BRADLEY CHEROKEE DOUBLE WEAVE RIVERCANE BASKET, RUNNING WATER,  EXCELLENT CONDITION!
Super Double Weave Rivercane basket with walnut and bloodroot vegetal dyes in the spectacular "Running Waters" pattern with which
Ms. Bradley was famous for.  This basketry gem measures 3.5" x 7.25”.  From a private North Carolina estate collection.
Rowena Bradley (1922-2003) was the
third generation of known basket weavers in her family. Both her grandmother, Mary Dobson and her mother, Nancy Bradley were
accomplished at making baskets. Bradley is often cited as one of only a handful of Cherokee basket weavers who carried on the complex
double weave technique in the 1930s and 1940s. Her baskets won numerous awards at the annual Cherokee Indian Fairs and an exhibition
of her work was held at Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual in Cherokee, North Carolina, in 1974.
Born in 1922, Rowena Bradley was raised on
Swimmer Branch in the Painttown Community on the Qualla Indian Boundary, lands owned by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
As a child, she learned to weave baskets by watching her mother. She made her first basket somewhere around 1928, before she started school.
She was just six-years-old. The youngest of eight children, Rowena Bradley lived with her parents until their death.
Made with walnut and bloodroot vegetal dyes.  Measures approximately 3.5” x 7.25” D.  Circa mid 20th C.
Fresh to the marketplace.  Clean and solid basket.  Extraordinary double weave.
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