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	[Woodcarving: angel with trumpet] Title [Woodcarving: angel with trumpet] Identifier JCCFS_W1052 Format craft object Date Created 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 Decade 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s County Clay County, N.C. Creator Brasstown Carvers Brown, Hope Caler Source Institution John C. Campbell Folk School Collection Artifact Collection. Brasstown Carvings, ca. 1930s-1950s. Copyright Information All rights reserved. John C. Campbell Folk School. For permission to reproduce items, contact Folklorist/John C. Campbell Folk School, One Folk School Road, Brasstown, NC 28902 or 1/800-365-5724.; All rights reserved. John C. Campbell Folk School. For permission to reproduce items, contact Folklorist/John C. Campbell Folk School, One Folks Road, Brasstown, NC 28902 or 1/800-365-5724.;
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