Bill and Mary Ann Crowe

Bill and Mary Ann Crowe

Artisans

Beadworkers

Cherokee Indians

Handicraft

Indigenous American wood-carving

Manners and customs

Wood-carvers

Wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

William "Bill" Crowe was a woodcarver and member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. He was brother to Amanda Crowe, who taught carving for many years at the Cherokee high school. William Crowe learned to carve from his uncles, Goingback Chiltoskey and Watty Chiltoskie and was a demonstrator at the Craftsman's Fair of the Southern Highlands.

United States. Indian Arts and Crafts Board

Photograph Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

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photographs

StillImage

10933

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2012-03-01

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

10" x 8"(dimension)

Cherokee Traditions