Shadrach Birdic "Birdie" Mace, sometimes known as Birdie Mace, learned chair making "from his father and his father before him." He is quoted at the end of the questionnaire, "Some peoples jist borned to do work by chair making." When asked about...
This catalog features craft items available through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. during the late 1930s and 1940s. The term "Native American" as used here refers to traditional American crafts in general rather than American Indian crafts...
This catalog features craft items available through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. during the late 1930s. The photographs of various craft items are accompanied by a brief description of that craft. Also included are inserts identifying craft...
This catalog features craft items available through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. during the late 1930s through the 1940s. Many craft artists from western North Carolina sold products through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. during the late 1930s...
This photograph depicts regional crafts exhibited at the meeting of the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers held in Knoxville, Tenn., March 1930. The Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild held its first official meeting in conjunction with the...
This photograph depicts regional crafts exhibited at the meeting of the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers held in Knoxville, Tenn., March 1930. The Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild held its first official meeting in conjunction with the...
This photograph depicts regional crafts exhibited at the meeting of the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers held in Knoxville, Tenn., March 1930. The Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild held its first official meeting in conjunction with the...
This photograph depicts regional crafts exhibited at the meeting of the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers held in Knoxville, Tenn., March 1930. The Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild held its first official meeting in conjunction with the...
This photograph depicts regional crafts exhibited at the meeting of the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers held in Knoxville, Tenn., March 1930. The Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild held its first official meeting in conjunction with the...
This photograph depicts regional crafts exhibited at the meeting of the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers held in Knoxville, Tenn., in 1931. The Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild (later the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild) met in...
This double chair buggy seat has woven cane seats. The seat has 6 slats, 3 on each side; three 20.5" uprights, flat front surface and cone turnings. The chair's two turned arm rests are cylindrical with fat centers and thin outers. This rare double...
This slat-back chair features a rush seat, cones on top of the two uprights, eight stretchers, and five horizontal banisters. The chair was made circa 1910 by Shadrach Birdic 'Birdie" Mace, 1892-1937, of Madison County, North Carolina. Mace, a...
This ladder-back cherry slipper chair, has a rope rush seat, six stretchers (two on each side) and two horizontal banisters. The chair was made ca. 1910 by Shadrach Birdic "Birdie" Mace, 1892-1973, of Madison County, North Carolina. Mace, a third...
This slat-back or ladder back chair made in the New England style, has eight stretchers, 5 horizontal banisters, two uprights that are turned at the top into a rounded off cone. Material is possibly chestnut and maple. The chair was probably made...
This slat-back slipper chair made in the New England style has a rope rush seat and six stretchers, 2 on each side, one on the front and back. The chair was probably made in the 1920s and is attributed to Max Woody, a seventh-generation...
This photograph, taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934, depicts chair maker Jason Reed with his grandchildren. Reed, a native of Blairsville, Georgia, was a chair maker who was commissioned to produce chairs for the 1927 Dedication Day of the...
This photograph, taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934, depicts chair maker Jason Reed with his granddaughter. Reed, a native of Blairsville, Georgia, was a chair maker who was commissioned to produce chairs for the 1927 Dedication Day of the...
This unsigned photograph, taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933, shows Fanny and Zillah Wilson, from Highlands, North Carolina, piecing fabric together for a quilt. The women are sitting on handmade chairs in front of a completed quilt.
Shadrach Birdic "Birdie" Mace, 1892-1973, demonstrated chair making at many of the Craftsman's Fairs. Here he sits at a draw-horse using a draw-knife to do the shaping for chair pieces. His wife, Sara, makes the chair seats by twisting cornhusks...
This photograph, taken in 1932, was included in the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 133, published in 1943. It shows a variety of Cherokee craft and dance objects including, clockwise from top left, a set of clothing,...
