This undated photograph by an unknown photographer shows Cora Wahnetah with McKinley "Mack" Ross (1899-1990). Cora Arch Wahnetah (1907-1986) was a renowned Cherokee potter who learned to make pottery in the traditional way from her mother, Ella…
In this undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph, Cherokee basket weaver Eva Queen Wolfe (1922-2004) is peeling rivercane in preparation for making a rivercane basket. Wolfe is shown on the porch of her house in Big Cove. Living and working…
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…
In this undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph, Cherokee basket weaver Eva Queen Wolfe (1922-2004) is shown splitting rivercane in preparation for making a rivercane basket. Wolfe is shown on the porch of her home in Big Cove. Living and…
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 Queen Wolfe (1922-2004) is shown here working on a double weave rivercane basket in this Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph from 1969. Living and working in the Big Cove community northeast of Cherokee, Eva Wolfe was a master…
This photograph of Cherokee basket weavers (left) Eva Queen Wolfe (1922-2004)) and (right) Emma Squirrel Taylor (1920-2002) was made by photographer Robert Amberg. Most likely the date of this image is 1989, the year that both women presented with a…
This photograph from the mid 1940s shows the Nickijack George family at work at their home. In the foreground is Davis George and his twin sister Lucy George (Long) with a saw, Nickijack George in the brimmed hat, Jarrett Blythe with the peavy (log…
This photograph by an unknown photographer shows Goingback Chiltoskey participating in a blowgun competion in 1977. Goingback Chiltoskey (1907-2000) was a native of Cherokee, North Carolina who trained in woodworking and art at the Haskell Institute…
This 1982 photograph, by an unknown photographer, is of Cherokee woodcarver Goingback Chiltoskey. Chiltoskey (1907-2000) was a native of Cherokee, North Carolina who trained in woodworking and art at the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas and the…