This undated photograph was taken while Amanda Swimmer was demonstrating pottery making using the coil technique in the tradition of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The youngest of 12 children, Amanda Sequoyah Swimmer (b. 1921) was born and…
This undated photograph by an unknown photographer is of Amanda Sequoyah Swimmer (b. 1921), a self-taught potter of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The youngest of 12 children, Swimmer was born and raised in the Straight Fork section of Big…
This undated photograph was taken while Amanda Swimmer was demonstrating pottery making in the tradition of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. She is shown here burnishing a pot with a polishing stone. The youngest of 12 children, Amanda…
This undated photograph was taken while Amanda Swimmer was demonstrating how she fires her pottery. She fires outdoors using wood in the tradition of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The youngest of 12 children, Amanda Sequoyah Swimmer (b.…
This undated photograph by an unknown photographer is of Amanda Sequoyah Swimmer (b. 1921), a self-taught potter of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The youngest of 12 children, she was born and raised in the Straight Fork section of Big Cove,…
This undated photograph was taken while Amanda Swimmer was demonstrating how she fires her pottery. She fires outdoors using wood in the tradition of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The youngest of 12 children, Amanda Sequoyah Swimmer,…
This undated photograph by an unknown photographer is of Amanda Sequoyah Swimmer, 1921-2018, a self-taught potter of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The youngest of 12 children, Swimmer was born and raised in the Straight Fork section of Big…
This undated photograph was taken while Amanda Swimmer was demonstrating how she fires her pottery. She fires outdoors using wood in the tradition of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The youngest of 12 children, Amanda Sequoyah Swimmer,…
Annie Wolfe James was born in 1936 into a family of basket weavers. Her mother was Minda Wolfe (Minda Hill Sequoyah Wolfe, 1897-1983). Her aunt, Alice Sequoyah Walkingstick demonstrated basketry at the Oconaluftee Indian Village. She and her four…
This photograph, probably taken in the 1890s or early 1900s, shows Arizona Swayney, a Cherokee student at Hampton Institute, making a basket. To the right of the photograph are several finished rivercane baskets. Swayney attended Hampton Normal and…