This undated photograph by an unknown photographer shows an example of a Cherokee dance mask called a "booger" mask. The mask maker's name is unknown. Cherokee masks were typically carved from buckeye or poplar, but were also be made...
Indian masks -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Indian wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This undated photograph by an unknown photographer shows an example of a Cherokee dance mask. The mask maker's name is unknown. Cherokee masks were typically carved from buckeye or poplar, but were also be made from hornets' nests, animal hides, or...
Indian masks -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Indian wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This undated photograph by an unknown photographer shows an example of a Cherokee dance mask. The mask maker's name is unknown. Cherokee masks were typically carved from buckeye or poplar, but were also be made from hornets' nests, animal hides, or...
Indian masks -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Indian wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This undated photograph by an unknown photographer shows an example of a Cherokee dance mask. The name of the carver is unknown. Cherokee masks were typically carved from buckeye or poplar, but were also be made from hornets' nests, animal hides,...
Indian masks -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Mask making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This undated photograph of Cherokee woodcarver Allen Long shows him carving a traditional dance mask. Long was born in 1917 in the Big Cove Community of Cherokee, North Carolina and started carving masks when he was twelve years old. Long learned...
Lillie Beck Bryson (1876–1951) was a Cherokee woman raised off the Qualla Boundary in Rabun Gap, Georgia. Bryson learned to make Catawba-style pottery while living in South Carolina, among the family of her first husband, a Catawba man. After...
Nettie Harris Owl (c. 1872-1923) was a Catawba woman who moved to Cherokee in the 1880s to be with her aunt Susannah Harris Owl. In 1889, Nettie Harris married Lloyd Owl. Along with her Aunt Susannah, Nettie Owl made pottery while living on the...
Susannah Harris was born in 1847 on Catawba land along the banks of the Catawba River in what is now York, ten miles south of Rock Hill, South Carolina, near Charlotte. After the Civil War, she met Sampson Owl, a Cherokee man who was visiting her...
This undated photograph was taken while Maude Welch was making pottery on the porch of her home. Maude French Welch (1894 – 1953) was was born near Cooper's Creek in the Birdtown section of the Qualla Boundary. Her pottery was formed entirely...
Cora Arch Wahnetah (1907-1986), pictured in this undated photograph, learned the techniques of both coiled and modeled pottery from her mother, Ella Long Arch (b. 1889). She used the coil method to form her pots and paddle stamped them to add a...
This undated photograph was taken while Amanda Swimmer was demonstrating how she fires her pottery. She fires outdoors using wood in the tradition of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The youngest of 12 children, Amanda Sequoyah Swimmer (b....
These are the wood carving tools used by John Wilnoty, Jr. (1960-2007), a self-taught carver and member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The items range between five and nine inches long. The makers and dates of these tools are unknown.
Stickball is a popular traditional game among Eastern Band Cherokee. The maker and date of this set are unknown. The sticks are made of wood and leather.
Stickball is a popular traditional game among Eastern Band Cherokee. The maker and dates of this set are unknown. The sticks are made of wood and leather.
Stone carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;Cherokee art -- Appalachian Region, Southern
This small figurative sculpture is made of steatite, more commonly known as soapstone. One side of the sculpture is carved with a number of figures and faces. On the other side, the raw stone is visible. The creator and date of this object are...
Indian wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
McKinley Ross (1899-1990) was instrumental in the establishment of Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, an artisan cooperative founded in 1946. Here Ross is shown giving a Cherokee woodcarving to George H. W. Bush, United States President from1989 to...
McKinley Ross (1899-1990) was instrumental in the establishment of Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, an artisan cooperative founded in 1946 in Cherokee, North Carolina. Here Ross is shown giving a piece of Cherokee pottery to George H. W. Bush,...
