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Title	[Woodcarving: angel with trumpet]
Creator	Brasstown Carvers Brown, Hope Caler
Medium of Original	crafts
Date of Orginal	1940/1979
Dimensions	3" x 7" x 2"
Description	Carved from basswood by Hope Caler Brown, this large Christmas angel holds a trumpet. Hope Brown and her husband Glenn carved with John C. Campbell Folk School instructor Murrial Martin in the 1940s and sold their work through the Folk School's woodcarving cooperative that became known as the Brasstown Carvers. In 1942 Hope Brown made more than $250 from carving, more than any other woman carver. Her sales were topped by only a handful of male carvers. Having raised eight children, Hope Brown has said that carving kept the family off welfare. Unlike many carvers who worked from patterns or drawings provided by Martin, Brown designed her own patterns and shared them with other carvers. She lost many original patterns in a fire that destroyed school woodshop in 1944.
Subject - Topic	Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Subject - Craft	Wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Subject - Group	Brasstown Carvers John C. Campbell Folk School
Craft Category	woodwork
Time Period	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Location	Clay County (N.C.)
Source Institution	John C. Campbell Folk School
Collection	Artifact Collection. Brasstown Carvings, ca. 1930s-1950s.
Inventory Number	JCCFS_W1052
Copyright Information	All rights reserved. For permissions and use, contact John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC 28902
Digital Publisher	Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

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