This photograph documents an exhibition of baskets by Agnes Welch. Agnes Lossie Welch (1925-1997) was known for making white oak baskets. Unlike most Cherokee basket weavers, she did not learn this craft through her family. Instead, Welch...
This 1950 photograph by Vivienne Roberts shows Elzina Tramper Bradley (1917-2007) in front of a large display of Cherokee baskets. She is holding her son Henry James on her back in a manner typical for Cherokee mothers. Most of the baskets behind...
This mask, made by Cherokee artisan Davy Arch (whose first name is sometimes seen spelled Davey), is carved and finished with a cord strap. Different types of masks were traditionally used in Cherokee culture for a variety of ceremonial purposes....
This mask, made by Cherokee artisan Davy Arch (whose first name is also sometimes spelled Davey), is carved and finished with a cord strap. Different types of masks were traditionally used in Cherokee culture for a variety of ceremonial purposes....
Confederate States of America. Army -- Anniversaries, etc.
The 'North Carolina Historical Review' (July 1997) identified this photograph as a Confederate veterans reunion that W.W. Stringfield, himself a veteran and the owner of the Haywood White Sulphur Springs Hotel, arranged in Waynesville, N.C., in the...
This fretless banjo is a example of a mid to late 19th-century hand-built instrument. There is no name of a maker on the headstock nor on the dowel rod inside the pot, but it is likely the banjo was made in the vicinity of Cherokee County. The...
Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
These weaving drafts and watercolor drawdown illustrate the coverlet pattern known as High Crick's Delight by Day and by Night. To record a pattern, a weaver creates a draft and/or a drawdown. A draft looks much like a strip of musical notation;...
