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Lucille Lossiah |
| Lucille Lossiah demonstrates basketweaving at the
Oconoluftee Indian Village.
The following biography from The Cherokee Artist Directory, 2001, Cherokee, North Carolina by Barbara Duncan, Freeman Owle, Amy Davis and Tess Thraves, published by the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in collaboration with the North Carolina Arts Council and the Cultural Resources Division of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is used with permission from the editors. |
| "Lucille Lossiah makes double and single weave
baskets from white oak, maple, and rivercane. She strips her own
cane to make splits and dyes these hersself with black walnut,
yellowroot, and bloodroot. From her mother, Mary Jane Lossiah, and her grandmother, Betty Lossiah, Lucille learned the tradition and family styles of basketweaving. Maple weaving, she says, is her favorite because she learned it first. She was born in the Painttown community in Cherokee and graduated from Cherokee High School. As a child, Lucille Lossiah spoke the Cherokee language at home, not learning English until she started school. The Cherokee language is still the primary language she uses for conversations with her mother and her sister. For fourteen years Lucille Lossiah has demonstrated basketweaving at the Oconoluftee Indian Village where she first learned rivercane basketry. She has demonstrated basketweaving along the East Coast from South Carolina to New York, and she demonstrates at the Atlanta History Museum every other year. Her work is sold at Qualla Arts and Crafts and the Indian Store in downtown Cherokee, and by special order. Lucille Lossiah will do demonstrations for nay size group and will travel anywhere, if given enough advance notice. At least two months prior notice by mail is suggested. She can travel with her sister Ramona Lossie or by herself. her fee is negotiable but must include travel costs. Lucille Lossiah requests permission to sell her work at demonstrations." Lucille Lossiah |
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