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    • [Basket: white oak, purse]

    • [Basket: white oak, purse]

    • Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph depicts white oak purse baskets that were made by Carol Welch utilizing techniques and patterns usually associated with rivercane. The pattern is called the Chief’s Heart. Carol Smith Welch...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Basket: white oak trio]

    • [Basket: white oak trio]

    • Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern ; Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • These three decorated white oak baskets were made by Emma Squirrel Taylor (1920-2002), a master Cherokee basket weaver. Taylor was from the Birdtown community of Cherokee, North Carolina and specialized in white oak baskets. This trio of baskets...
    • Craft Revival
    • Basketry by Emma Taylor

    • Basketry by Emma Taylor

    • Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This four-page brochure was created by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, a division of the United States Department of Interior, to accompany a 1975 exhibition of "Basketry by Emma Taylor." The exhibitions were held at Qualla Arts and Crafts...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Woodcarving: potter]

    • [Woodcarving: potter]

    • Indian wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Cherokee art -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph shows a carving of a Cherokee potter that was made by Cherokee woodcarver Virgil Ledford, who was born in 1940 in the Birdtown Community on the Qualla Boundary. Ledford began carving as a child...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Julia Taylor]

    • [Julia Taylor]

    • Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Basketwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This undated photograph, taken by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, shows Julia Ned Taylor (1902-1991) at home on her porch in the Birdtown Community on the Qualla Boundary. Taylor is trimming white oak splits to prepare for basket weaving. A...
    • Craft Revival
    • Basketry by Eva Wolfe

    • Basketry by Eva Wolfe

    • Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This four-page brochure was created by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, a division of the United States Department of Interior, to accompany a 1969 exhibition of "Basketry by Eva Wolfe." The exhibitions were held at Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual,...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Cora Wahnetah]

    • [Cora Wahnetah]

    • Cherokee pottery -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph shows renowned potter Cora Wahnetah using a paddle to make a design on a piece of her pottery. A member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Cora Arch Wahnetah (1907-1986) was also known Cora...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Virgil Ledford]

    • [Virgil Ledford]

    • Indian wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Cherokee art -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph shows Cherokee carver Virgil Ledford, who was born in 1940 in the Birdtown Community on the Qualla Boundary. Ledford began carving as a child while still in elementary school; his grandfather...
    • Craft Revival
    • Virgil Ledford Sculpture and Carving

    • Virgil Ledford Sculpture and Carving

    • Indian wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Cherokee art -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This four-page brochure was produced to accompany a 1974 exhibition of work by Cherokee woodcarver Virgil Ledford. The exhibit was held at Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual and included 21 pieces in cherry, buckeye, walnut, and mahogany. The...
    • Craft Revival
    • Goingback Chiltoskey: Sculptor

    • Goingback Chiltoskey: Sculptor

    • Indian wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Cherokee art -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This four-page brochure was produced to accompany a 1972 exhibition of work by Cherokee woodcarver Goingback Chiltoskey (1907-2000). The exhibit was held at Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual and included 31 pieces in wood, metal, and plaster. The...
    • Craft Revival
    • Documentary of Six Cherokee Artists

    • Documentary of Six Cherokee Artists

    • Basketwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Cherokee art -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Cherokee pottery -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Indian wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;...

    • 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...
    • Craft Revival
    • Doubleweave Rivercane Basketry by Eva Wolfe

    • Doubleweave Rivercane Basketry by Eva Wolfe

    • Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This four-page brochure was created by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, a division of the U.S. Department of Interior, to accompany a 1978 exhibition of "Basketry by Eva Wolfe." The exhibitions were held at Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, an...
    • Craft Revival
    • Rivercane Basketry by Rowena Bradley

    • Rivercane Basketry by Rowena Bradley

    • Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This four-page brochure was created by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, a division of the U.S. Department of Interior, to accompany a 1974 exhibition of "Rivercane Basketry by Rowena Bradley." The exhibitions were held at Qualla Arts and Crafts...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Basket: white oak, storage]

    • [Basket: white oak, storage]

    • Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph was most likely taken for a 1977 exhibition of Elsie Watty's white oak baskets at Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual artisan cooperative in Cherokee. The storage basket, dyed with walnut root and bloodroot,...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Basket: white oak, shopper]

    • [Basket: white oak, shopper]

    • Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph was most likely taken for a 1977 exhibition of Elsie Watty's white oak baskets at Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual artisan cooperative in Cherokee. The body of this shopping basket, dyed with walnut root...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Basket: white oak, picnic]

    • [Basket: white oak, picnic]

    • Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph was most likely taken for a 1977 exhibition of Elsie Watty's white oak baskets at Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual artisan cooperative in Cherokee. The body of this picnic basket, dyed with walnut root, is...
    • Craft Revival
    • Pottery by Cora Wahnetah

    • Pottery by Cora Wahnetah

    • Cherokee pottery -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This exhibition brochure was created to accompany a 1971 solo exhibition of pottery by Cora Wahnetah. A member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Cora Arch Wahnetah (1907-1986) was also known Cora Wahyahneetah. The exhibition was organized...
    • Craft Revival
    • Designs in Pottery by the Bigmeat Family

    • Designs in Pottery by the Bigmeat Family

    • Cherokee pottery -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This brochure on Bigmeat family pottery was created to accompany an exhibition of their work in 1979. The exhibition was held at Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, Inc., an artisan cooperative. The exhibition included work by three daughters of...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Amanda Crowe]

    • [Amanda Crowe]

    • Indian wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This 1978 photograph by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board shows Cherokee woodcarver Amanda Crowe. A member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee, Crowe (1928-2004) is known for figurative wood sculptures; she was particularly known for her expressive...
    • Craft Revival
    • Carvings by John Julius Wilnoty

    • Carvings by John Julius Wilnoty

    • Stone carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;Cherokee art -- Appalachian Region, Southern

    • This four-page brochure was published by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board and Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual to accompany an exhibition of carvings by John Julius Wilnoty (b. 1940). A member of the Eastern Band, Wilnoty was born in the Cherokee...
    • Craft Revival

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