n this photograph, which is part of a series of four, Cherokee basket weaver Martha Ross demonstrates how to prepare white oak for making a basket. After cutting and curing, the oak tree is quartered before the maker begins the process of making...
This photograph from the 1940s shows the home of Maude Welch, a renowned Cherokee potter. Upon close inspection, Welch can be seen shaping pottery on her front porch at the far left of the house. In the center of the photograph, in front of the...
This photograph features Frances Louisa Goodrich (1856-1944) standing in front of two coverlets. The coverlet on the left is woven in a Double Bow Knot pattern, the one on the right is the Pine Cone Bloom pattern. This 1943 photograph, made the...
This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph is of Amanda Elaine Smoker (1916-2010), a basket weaver of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. In the photograph, Smoker is pulling apart white oak splits in preparation for making a basket. ...
In this photograph, which is part of a series of four, Cherokee basket weaver Martha Ross demonstrates how to prepare white oak for making a basket. After cutting and curing, the oak tree is quartered before the maker begins the process of making...
In this photograph, which is part of a series of four, Cherokee basket weaver Martha Ross demonstrates how to prepare white oak for making a basket. After cutting and curing, the oak tree is quartered before the maker begins the process of making...
In this photograph, which is part of a series of four, Cherokee basket weaver Martha Ross demonstrates how to prepare white oak for making a basket. After cutting and curing, the oak tree is quartered before the maker begins the process of making...
This photograph depicts the Edward F. Worst Craft House on the campus of the Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts). The building was named after the school's first weaving instructor, Edward F. Worst. The structure was...
This photograph, dated 1895, is from the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives and shows a group of students upon their arrival at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) in Hampton, Virginia. Founded as a Freedman's Bureau school...
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 1940s shows Maude Welch, a renowned Cherokee potter, making pottery on her front porch. Welch was born in 1894 near Cooper's Creek in the Bird Town section of the Qualla Boundary. Her pottery was formed and carved from...
This photograph from the 1940s shows Maude Welch, a renowned Cherokee potter, making pottery on her front porch. Welch was born in 1894 near Cooper's Creek in the Bird Town section of the Qualla Boundary. Her pottery was formed and carved from...
In this early 1940s photograph, Lizzie Tooni is sitting on the porch watching her daughter, Mary Wolfe use a traditional mortar and pestle to grind corn. The mortar is made from a stump; the pestle is used upright to pound corn or chestnuts into a...
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...
This undated photograph by an unknown photographer is of Cherokee basket weaver, Sally Ann Taylor Wade (1924-1988). Wade is shown making white oak splits with a pocketknife, preparing materials needed to weave a basket. Wade was born in the...
This undated photograph by an unknown photographer shows Julia Ned Taylor (1902-1991) with a small white oak ribbed basket in her lap. A member of Birdtown Community of the Qualla Indian Boundary, Taylor was known for making ribbed white oak...
This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph is of a single weave rivercane basket that was made in 1973 by Cherokee basket maker, Rowena Bradley. The large basket was begun from a square base and woven outward before tapering in to a...
This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph is of a single weave rivercane basket made in 1973 by Cherokee basket maker, Rowena Bradley. The large basket was begun from a square base and woven outward before tapering in to a circular...
This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph is of a single weave rivercane basket by Cherokee basket maker, Rowena Bradley. The large basket was begun from a square base and woven outward before tapering in to a circular reinforced rim....
