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 undated photograph of Cherokee basket weaver Eva Queen Wolfe (1922-2004) was made by photographer Edward DuPuy. Wolfe is shown working on a single weave rivercane basket on the porch of her home in Big Cove. Living and working in the Big Cove…
This undated photograph was taken of Eva Wolfe signing an exhibit brochure, probably at Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, an artisan cooperative in Cherokee, North Carolina. Eva Queen Wolfe (1922-2004) was a master basket weaver who specialized in…
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…
While this photographic postcard does not identify this weaver, she appears to be Eva Wolfe. Eva Queen Wolfe (1922-2004) was an accomplished Cherokee weaver. She is shown here working on a great wheel or walking wheel, which was traditionally used…
This photograph, made for the Smithsonian Institution's National Anthropological Archives around 1888, shows how Cherokee families caught fish in the region's fast-flowing rivers. Before the hunt could begin, the Cherokee first constructed a fish…
Fred Wilnoty, a self-taught Cherokee stone carver of ceremonial peace pipes and staffs, finds inspiration through spending time in nature. In this video interview, Wilnoty explains that his carvings bring out what is meant to be seen in the stone.…