This photograph, taken in 1932 by an unknown photographer, is from the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 133, published in 1943. It is titled, "Wiliwesti's Artifacts" and shows a variety of Cherokee craft items...
This photograph of Will West Long was taken in the field by Frans M. Olbrechts. Long served as Olbrechts' "main informant and interpreter" in the interviews he conducted for the the United States Bureau of American Ethnology in the years 1926 and...
This 1900 photograph from the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives depicts Cherokee women making pottery. The woman on the left is Katalsta, the daughter of Drowning Bear or Yonaguska, arguably the most prominent chief of the Eastern...
This 1900 photograph from the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives depicts Cherokee women making pottery. The woman on the left is Katalsta, the daughter of Drowning Bear or Yonaguska, arguably the most prominent chief of the Eastern...
This photograph from the Smithsonian National Anthropological Archives is of Will West Long (1870-1947). The photograph was taken by Franz M. Olbrechts, an ethnographer who worked among the Cherokee from 1926 until 1931. Long served as Olbrechts'...
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,...
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...