She began to think about how she could
expand her photography to basketry. “When I was doing the drawings for the IACB, by the time I arrived at 16 or 17, I understood the math and the rhythm enough that I thought to myself, ‘I could do this.’ But it wasn’t until decades later that I made one.” Eventually, in 2008, she created her first single-weave basket, Pieced Treaties; Spider’s Web Treaty Basket, which now resides in the collection of the National Museum of the American Indian. It was woven out of the texts of the 2004 Tobacco Tax Compact between the State of Oklahoma and the Cherokee Nation and the Tribal–State Tobacco Compact of June 8, 1992. The piece will be featured in Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations opening on September 21, 2014, in Washington, D.C. It was intentionally left un- done due the ongoing negotiations at the time. Since then, she has woven about 150 baskets. “A lot of inspiration is being prepared to
receive it – which I was,” Goshorn says. She considers herself an artist who “chooses the medium which best expresses an idea or state- ment.” As a basket-maker, Goshorn quickly mastered Cherokee styles. For her second basket, she decided to try the double-weave technique. After completing it, she was told by the Museum of the Cherokee Indian that she was the 14th
living person to be documented as
achieving this skill. According to M. Anna Fariello’s study
Unintended Legacy, Archival watercolor paper splints first printed with archival inks, acrylic paint, 10” x 9.5” x 9.5”, 2014. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, James T. Bialac Native American Art Collection 2014.
Cherokee Basketry: From the Hands of Our Elders (The History Press, Charleston, S.C.: 2009), in the single-weave process, the maker begins at the base of the basket and weaves upward to the rim. At the beginning of a basket, the base starts out as a square. As the weaving continues upward, the basket shape becomes round, ending with a circular rim. A double weave is actually two bas- kets, one woven inside the other. To begin this process, a basket is started at the base and woven upward to the rim. Then, the material is turned downward and the maker works on the outside of the basket, from the rim to base. Goshorn adds that white oak is perhaps the
Class photo of female students at Carlisle School on lawn with gazebo and school building in background. 28 AMERICAN INDIAN SUMMER/FALL 2014
most common material used by the Cherokee, with river cane and honeysuckle also on tap. Different types of baskets include burden, fish, trays, mats, storage, fancy and carrying for a variety of purposes, including food storage and transport of a diverse collection of materials. Goshorn uses Cherokee designs that include but are not limited to Spider’s Web, Cross-on- the-Hill, Water, Mountains, Lightning, Man- in-the-Coffin, Fishbone, Peace Pipe, Chief’s Daughter and Chief’s Heart. She has also de- cided to apply her own artistic interpretations.
PHOTO BY JOHN N. CHOATE. NATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHIVES, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NAA INV 02778700
PHOTO BY SHAN GOSHORN
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN – SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION (N02729). PHOTO BY MARK RAYMOND (M.R.) HARRINGTON
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