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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 7. 8. Dyes - walnut bark or walnut hulls 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.