Mavis Doering Basket
Mavis Doering (1929–2007) was a Cherokee Nation basket maker from Oklahoma.
Background
Doering was born in Hominy, Oklahoma and was the third generation of a family of basket makers. She was mostly self-taught. Beginning in the 1970's, she researched weaving techniques from books in libraries and museums.
Art
Doering's baskets were of post-removal Cherokee basket patterns and materials, but with her own personal element such as painted elements and attached elements such as feathers and beads, baskets that honored legends, and baskets in the shape of clay pots. Most were double-walled.
She gathered her own materials and learned to make her own dyes from nut hulls, berries, and leaves, mostly obtained from her mother's allotment land near Tahlequah in Eastern Oklahoma.Basket materials she used included buckbrush, reed, honeysuckle runners, white oak splits, ash splits, rivercane, and cattail leaves. In addition to a wide range of natural dyes, Doering also experimented with brilliant aniline dyes.
Exhibits, honors, and legacy
Doering exhibited her baskets widely, including at such venues as the Southern Plains Indian Museum, Coulter Bay Indian Art Museum, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Oklahoma Historical Society, the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and the Smithsonian Institution Folklife Festival. In 1982 and 1983, she received majors commissions from the Oklahoma State Arts Council for over 50 baskets.
Mavis Doering taught several contemporary Cherokee basket makers, including Peggy Brennan, how to weave double-walled baskets.*
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Kin 214: White Rhythmic Wizard
I organize in order to enchant
Balancing receptivity
I seal the output of timelessness
With the rhythmic tone of equality
I am guided by my own power doubled.
Calm indifference refers to bearing the slings and arrows of fate; the criticism and hostility of others of being indifferent to loss or gain.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Svadhistana Chakra (Kali Plasma)
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