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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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 from hornets'...
This clipping from an unknown periodical is included in a scrapbook that chronicles Frances Goodrich’s early years in western North Carolina. Frances Louisa Goodrich (1856-1944) was among the first to promote a revival of weaving in the North...
This finely modeled pottery vessel with a snake motif was made by Susannah Harris Owl (1847–1934). Susannah Harris was born in 1847 on Catawba land along the banks of the Catawba River in what is now York, South Carolina, ten miles south of Rock...
This impressed pottery vessel was made by Nettie Harris Owl (c. 1872-1923), 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...
(011) Awl; wooden handle; awl point broken; ''USA'' on point; handle stained; (018) Wooden block with 8 tacks; one tack has ''KUEFFAL & ESSER CO. NY''; some tarnished spots on tacks; wood block has additional small holes; (123) ''Keystone Quality''...
(011) Awl; wooden handle; awl point broken; "USA" on point; handle stained; (018) Wooden block with 8 tacks; one tack has "KUEFFAL & ESSER CO. NY"; some tarnished spots on tacks; wood block has additional small holes; (123) "Keystone Quality"...
This photograph of Clyde P. Miller was taken in 1936 at Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts). Miller, Penland's first metals instructor, taught jewelry making, metal craft, and leather work during the summers of 1935-38.
Artisans -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This undated image of Kate Clayton Donaldson (ca. 1864-1960, also known as "Granny" Donaldson) is in the archives of the John C. Campbell Folk School. The image, by an unknown photographer, appears to be clipped from a newspaper or magazine....
This undated photograph by an unknown photographer includes a series of white oak ribbed baskets made by Julia Ned Taylor (1902-1991). Included in the shot is a single wall basket and a two- and three-tiered version. A member of the Birdtown...
Small handled baskets like this one are known as egg baskets, although they were certainly used for other purposes. The egg basket, more often made of white oak, is a typical form of the Appalachian region. Baskets such as these were used to...
Cherokee craftworker Rowena Bradley is shown in this undated photograph, weaving a rivercane basket held in her lap. To keep the cane pliable, she soaks it in a bucket of water. Two unfinished baskets sit beside her. The basket pattern at left...
Basket maker Eva Wolfe is shown in this undated photograph with an rivercane purse basket in her lap. She sits surrounded by other rivercane baskets, three of them made in the complex double weave style. One basket is tagged with a First Place...
Basket maker Eva Wolfe is shown in this undated photograph with an unfinished rivercane basket in her lap. She sits surrounded by many other rivercane baskets, most of them in the complex double weave style. Living and working in the Big Cove...
