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Title	[Lizzie Tooni]
Creator	unknown
Contributor	National Anthropological Archives
Medium of Original	photographs
Date of Orginal	1940/1945
Dimensions	10" x 8"
Description	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 fine powder. The two children with the women are Mary Wolfe's children, Bill and Frances. The photograph was taken in Big Cove community on the Qualla Boundary. The photograph is from the National Anthropological Archives of the Smithsonian, but the photographer is unknown.
Subject - Topic	Cherokee women -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Time Period	1940s
Location	Cherokee Indian Reservation (N.C.)
Source Institution	Museum of the Cherokee
Collection	Photograph Collection
Inventory Number	MCI_CH_046
Copyright Information	All rights reserved. For permissions and use, contact Museum of the Cherokee Indian, Cherokee, NC 28719
Digital Publisher	Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723