Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee, circa 1994, each white oak, largest approx. 2-1/8 x 1-7/8 x 2 in.

Provenance: From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia

Note: In the catalog description from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 135, cat. no. 381-83, Burrison writes, "McCollum studied with Ken and Kathleen Dalton of Coker Creek, Tennessee, as part of a basket making revival. He began specializing in miniatures when challenged to make tiny baskets for dollhouses and as a response to dwindling timber."

Exhibited: Previously on Loan at the Atlanta History Center for viewing in the exhibition Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in the Changing South from 1996 to 2024

Illustrated: Baskets pictured in Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South by John A. Burrison, Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 69.