Qualla Arts & Craft Mutual of Cherokee, North Carolina, had a popular booth at the Craftsman's Fairs of the Southern Highlands. This overview of the display shows renowned woodcarver Goingback Chiltoskey with a display of his carvings. Basket...
Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual of Cherokee, North Carolina, had a popular booth at the Craftsman's Fairs of the Southern Highlands. In this photograph from the 1953 fair in Asheville, North Carolina, four women are admiring a double-weave basket, as...
The snapshot shows Southern Highland Craft Guild member, Nancy Conseen demonstrating basketry in the entrance to the Folk Art Center, Asheville, North Carolina. Behind her is a poster with the schedule of craft demonstrations sponsored by the...
Lottie Queen Stamper (1907-1987) was a Cherokee basket maker who made double weave baskets. She demonstrated her art at the 1948 Craftsman's Fair of the Southern Highlands in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. In this photograph, taken by Clem Kalischer,...
Lottie Queen Stamper (1907-1987) was a Cherokee basket maker who made double weave baskets. She demonstrated her art at the 1948 Craftsman's Fair of the Southern Highlands in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. In this photograph, taken by Clem Kalischer,...
Lottie Queen Stamper (1907-1987) was a Cherokee basket maker who made double weave baskets. She demonstrated her art at the 1948 Craftsman's Fair of the Southern Highlands in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. In this photograph, taken by Clem Kalischer,...
Lottie Queen Stamper (1907-1987) was a Cherokee basket maker who made double weave baskets. In this photograph, by an unknown photographer, Stamper demonstrates her art at the 1948 Craftsman's Fair of the Southern Highlands in Gatlinburg,...
Lottie Queen Stamper (1907-1987) was a Cherokee basket maker who made double weave baskets. In this photograph, taken by Clem Kalischer, Stamper demonstrates her art at the 1948 Craftsman's Fair of the Southern Highlands in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Cherokee basket makers demonstrated their craft at the Craftsman's Fairs of the Southern Highlands, here they are depicted at the 1952 fair in Asheville, North Carolina. On the left, Lucy George demonstrates weaving with honeysuckle vine. In the...
Lucy Nola George (1897-1978) was a basket maker from the Qualla Boundary in Cherokee, North Carolina. She often demonstrated her craft at the Craftsman's Fair of the Southern Highlands. This photograph, taken by Edward L. Dupuy, is from the 1953...
Caroline Wolfe lived on the Qualla Boundary in Cherokee, North Carolina and wove split white oak baskets. This photograph, taken by an unknown photographer, shows Wolfe demonstrating at the 1950 Craftsman's Fair of the Southern Highlands in...
Lottie Queen Stamper (1907-1987) is one of Cherokee's best-known basket weavers. In this undated photograph, Stamper is shown carving an interlock handle for a white oak basket. Born in the Soco community to Levi and Mary Queen, Lottie Queen...
Lottie Queen Stamper (1907-1987) is one of Cherokee's best-known basket weavers. In this undated photograph by an unknown photographer, Stamper is shown carving an interlock handle for a white oak basket. In the background is a young girl working...
Lottie Queen Stamper (1907-1987) is one of Cherokee's best-known basket weavers. In this undated photograph, Stamper is shown carving an interlock handle for a white oak basket. In the background are several rivercane baskets in the double weave...
This photograph, probably taken in the 1890s or early 1900s, shows Arizona Swayney, a Cherokee student at Hampton Institute, making a basket. To the right of the photograph are several finished rivercane baskets. Swayney attended Hampton Normal...
This undated brochure Traditional Craftsmanship by Butch & Louise Goings, was printed to accompany an exhibition at Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual cooperative in Cherokee, North Carolina. The exhibition featured the work of wood carver Butch Goings...
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These documents pertain to the life and work of Cherokee basket maker, Nancy Conseen (1929-1997). Included are a biographical profile written around 1983 and an overview of Conseen's basketry, probably written to accompany and exhibition of...
This brochure, Documentary of Six Cherokee Artists, was produced to accompany a 1976 exhibition of honeysuckle baskets by Nancy Conseen, woodcarving and sculpture by Gilbert Crowe, rivercane basketry by Edmund Youndbird, pottery by Louise and John...
This undated photograph by an unknown photographer is of Cherokee basket weaver Edmund Youngbird (1922-1995) with one of his woven rivercane wall hangings. Youngbird was unusual, as basketmaking is traditionally the sphere of women in Cherokee...
An outdoor display of crafts was installed for the Folk Art Center ground breaking ceremony. Prominent among the crafts are an array of Cherokee baskets. The photograph was made on June 7, 1977 at the Folk Art Center site on the Blue Ridge...
