In this photograph by Vivienne Roberts, Cherokee basketmakers Nice George and Lucy George Long are shown preparing materials to make baskets. They are in the process of cutting, scraping, and thinning white oak splits or splints into different...
The Album caption reads simply ''Molly and Mrs. Bob.'' Mrs. Bob is Mrs. Bob Barnett, both of whom are featured in Kephart's journals and published writings. This photograph is on Album page 47 with the heading ''Great Smoky Mts.''
The Album caption reads simply "Molly and Mrs. Bob." Mrs. Bob is Mrs. Bob Barnett, both of whom are featured in Kephart's journals and published writings. This photograph is on Album page 47 with the heading "Great Smoky Mts."
This 1912 letter was written by Frances Goodrich for the Woman's Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Goodrich first came to western North Carolina in 1892 as a community worker employed by this mission board. It was...
Rebecca Gibbs Ashe (Mrs. Napoleon Bonaparte Ashe) was a self taught weaver living near Sylva, North Carolina. She made her first loom from wood donated by a neighbor on which she began weaving rugs. She did her own dyeing and created unique...
A photograph of ''Mrs. Alma Brown and Homer,'' of the Dicks Creek community in Jackson County, North Carolina. This photograph is on Album page 3 with the heading ''Tuckaseegee River.'' The oblong hole in the cabin wall to the left of Mrs. Brown's...
A photograph of "Mrs. Alma Brown and Homer," of the Dicks Creek community in Jackson County, North Carolina. This photograph is on Album page 3 with the heading "Tuckaseegee River." The oblong hole in the cabin wall to the left of Mrs. Brown's head...
This questionaire gives information about Mrs. A.L. Montford-Bebb [first name unknown], a weaver living in Arden, N.C. Mrs. Montford-Bebb was taught to weave by a friend, had been weaving for about one year at the time of the survey, and was a...
These documents pertain to the life and work of Mrs. C.G. Hodges (first name unknown), who specialized in making Colonial Knot bedspreads, also called candle wicking, with elaborate fringes. Included are the transcript of an interview of Mrs....
Rebecca Gibbs Ashe (Mrs. Napoleon Bonaparte Ashe) was a self taught weaver living near Sylva, North Carolina. She made her first loom from wood donated by a neighbor on which she began weaving rugs. She did her own dyeing and created unique...
This is a photograph by Vivienne Roberts of Maude Welch, a Cherokee potter who was born in 1894 near Cooper's Creek in the Bird Town section of the Qualla Boundary in Cherokee, North Carolina. Mrs. Welch's pottery was formed and carved completely...
This undated postcard features a colorized photograph of a Cherokee woman making a basket at the Cherokee Indian Fair. The back of the postcard reads, "Mrs. Nina Standing Deer was a feature of the Cherokee Indian Fair as she wove her baskets...
This photograph is included in a scrapbook that chronicles Frances Goodrich’s early years in Madison County, North Carolina. Frances Louisa Goodrich (1856-1944) was among the first to promote a revival of weaving in the North Carolina mountains,...
These two early 1900s weaving drafts illustrate the coverlet pattern known as Beautiful Waves. To record a pattern, a weaver creates a draft and/or a drawdown. A draft looks much like a strip of musical notation; a drawdown is a visual grid that...
This photograph was made on June 7, 1977 on the occasion of the ground breaking of the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, North Carolina. Attending the event was Joan Mondale, wife of Vice President Mondale. Mondale was...
This mounted photograph shows Elmeda Walker spinning on a big wheel outside of a mountain cabin in the late 1890s or early 1900s. Walker lived in Tennessee (or Elkin, North Carolina), just west of Allanstand, North Carolina; and Frances Goodrich...
In this photograph dated 1903, Mr. and Mrs. F.A. Luck, Sr., of Jackson County, N.C., are seen in a carriage. In the late 1880s and early 1890s, Luck, Sr., was the business manager of the 'Tuckaseige Democrat' (Sylva, N.C.) newspaper. In 1890 he...
The caption identifies the people in the photograph as ''(L. to R.--) Taylor, Molly Davis, Mrs. Barnett, Bob, Will Calhoun. Foreman's House, Everett Copper Mine.'' This photograph is almost identical to the one on the bottom of Album page 44,...
The caption identifies the people in this photograph as ''(L. to R.--) Taylor, self, Bob, Mrs. B, Andy, Molly, Laney. (Flash-light.)'' This picture may have been taken in the foreman's house at the Everett copper mine since it is on the page facing...
The couple in this photograph is ''Mr. and Mrs. Turpin, Dick Creek.'' The Turpin family of Dicks Creek, near Dillsboro, North Carolina, was featured on page 7 of the Album under the heading ''Tuckaseegee River.'' This photograph is located with the...
