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Devon Elayne Murphy: Matter That Matters: A Study of Cherokee Baskets and the Museums that Display Them (Under the direction of Carol Magee) This research considers the classificatory difficulties Cherokee baskets from the twentieth century present in museum spaces. Native art objects have historically been exhibited in one-dimensional displays. Focusing on two baskets, one from a non-Native museum, the Gregg Museum of Art and Design in Raleigh, NC, and one from a Native museum, the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee, NC, the multiple histories of these objects are uncovered. These multiple narratives speak to the creative autonomy and modern lives of their makers, Sallie Locust and Betty Lossiah, who engaged in multiple markets to sell their works. These baskets’ materials and trajectories reveal complex information structures; this points to a need for institutions to critically reexamine information sources like catalogs and donor information as influences on museum exhibitions. I provide recommendations for museums to recognize different knowledge practices and to emphasize the multidimensionality of Cherokee, and by extension, Native art objects. |
