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 1940s photograph by Vivienne Roberts shows young women participating in a weaving class at the Cherokee Training School. Classes in traditional Cherokee arts and crafts were taught at the Cherokee Training School to provide vocational training…
This undated photograph by an unknown photographer shows a woman carrying a child on her back. In her right hand is a Cherokee style white oak split market basket. White oak baskets with handles were employed by Cherokee women for a variety of…
This 1893 photograph was taken of students and a teacher at the Cherokee Training School in Cherokee, North Carolina and was arranged to display the variety of skills taught to students at the school. The training school for the Eastern Band of…
This photograph shows a group of Cherokees who have gathered to watch a traditional stickball game. Ball games were social occasions in the Cherokee community and provided recreation for the tribe. The photograph was made on the Qualla Boundary for…
This photograph shows a group of Cherokees who have gathered to watch a traditional stickball game. Ball games were social occasions in the Cherokee community and provided recreation for the tribe. The photograph was made on the Qualla Boundary for…
This photograph shows a group of Cherokees who have gathered to watch a traditional stickball game. Ball games were social occasions in the Cherokee community and provided recreation for the tribe. The photograph was made on the Qualla Boundary for…
This 1900 photograph from the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives depicts Cherokee women making pottery. The woman on the left is Katalsta, the daughter of Drowning Bear or Yonaguska, arguably the most prominent chief of the Eastern Band…
This 1900 photograph from the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives depicts Cherokee women making pottery. The woman on the left is Katalsta, the daughter of Drowning Bear or Yonaguska, arguably the most prominent chief of the Eastern Band…
This photograph from the 1940s shows the home of Maude French Welch (1894-1953), a renowned Cherokee potter. Upon close inspection, Welch can be seen shaping pottery on her front porch at the far left of the house. In the center of the photograph,…