View Collections | Browse Cultural Objects | Browse Oral History
Key basket with flat back to hang on wall
Images (click to enlarge)
Baskets, Cultural Objects

Clovis Boyd Key Basket

People
Maker/Creator: Clovis Boyd
Date
1980s
Places
Wills Ridge (Alum Ridge District)
Material/Medium

White Oak

Specifications
  • Diameter (ear-to-ear): 10 inches
  • Depth: 8 inches
  • Height of weaving: 8 inches
  • Height with handle: 13 inches
Description

White oak rib basket woven with flat side designed to hang on wall; Appalachian style ears; semicircular hand-carved oak rim and handle fastened with copper nails

Keywords
rib basket, wall basket, key basket
Bio Sketch

Clovis Dexter Boyd (1912-1988) married Roxie May Gallimore in 1935. He was the son of Dillard Monroe Boyd and Ethel Della “Katie” Kenley Boyd.

Dillard Boyd (1884- 1971) was a farmer and basket maker.  He taught a teen-aged Clovis how to select white oak saplings and weave them into rib baskets.

Notes

Clovis Boyd was invited to demonstrate his basket making at the 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville Tennessee. Before heading to Tennessee, he wove fifty baskets to sell during the week.