This undated photograph shows a building on the campus of the Cherokee Boarding School. A school for the Eastern Band was instituted as a boarding and day school in 1884 and was operated for its first twelve years by the Society of Friends…
This photograph was taken at the home of Will West Long (1870-1947) when he was interviewed in December of 1946 by W. N. Fenton and Lester Hargrett. At their request, Long demonstrated the making of a traditional wooden Cherokee dance mask. …
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…
This photograph, by an unknown photographer, shows the children of the Sequoyah family around 1949. The oldest boy may be Amoneeta Sequoyah, Jr., and the girl may be his younger sister, Rachel Lydia Sequoyah. A white oak basket hangs on the porch…
This 1937 photograph of Nancy George Bradley (1881-1963) was made Chattanooga photographer W. M. Cline. Bradley is shown holding a rivercane basket in her lap. Few baskets made by Nancy Bradley are known to exist, although word of her work is…
This undated photograph of Nancy Bradley was made Chattanooga photographer W. M. Cline. Bradley is shown holding four rivercane baskets. Few baskets made by Nancy Bradley are known to exist, although word of her work is legendary. Both her mother,…
Betty Craig DuPree (1929-2012) was born and raised in Cherokee. After marrying, she left Cherokee to live in the Southwest where she worked in arts and crafts galleries and learned about Native American crafts. Returning to the Qualla Boundary in…
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 photograph by Vivienne Roberts shows the original Museum of the Cherokee Indian in the 1950s. That facility was opened in 1948 but burned in the early 1970s. The Museum re-located to its present location in 1976. The mission of the Museum of…
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…