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LOGGER'S SHEET 

LOGGER: Becky Gilmore 
REEL NUMBER: #3 - Side B
STAGE: Cultural Conservation
DATE: 6/26/86
PRESENTOR: Rayna Green
GROUP NAME: Marketing Traditional Crafts: Cherokee Basketry
REGION/STYLE: Cherokee, N.C.

| PERFORMER(S) | INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION |
|Emma Taylor|
|Louise Goings|
|Betty Du Pree|


CONTENTS

1. Introduction - by Presentor - background of Cherokee nation - Trail of Tears, "real" people who escaped & stayed in N.C.
2. Betty - background of basket weaving industry - how it's stayed alive
3. Emma - how she learned basketry - learned from parents who used baskets as trade items
4. Louise - started basketry for money (mother had 8 children)
5. Basketry in Cherokee culture is not leisure hobby - done for economic reasons and for specific uses
6. Materials used - 1) River cane - have to go to other states for cane because of highways destroying cane in N.C. 2) Honeysuckle 3)White Oak
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8. Dyes - walnut bark or walnut hulls
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