Edmund Youngbird and Joan Mondale

Edmund Youngbird and Joan Mondale

Basket makers

Basketwork

Cherokee baskets

Cherokee women

Handicraft

Manners and customs

Politicians

This photograph shows, from left to right, Edmund Youngbird (1922-1995), Lana Gudger, Joan Mondale, and Mrs. Robert B. Morgan. Youngbird was a Cherokee basket weaver and member of Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual. Lana Gudger was the wife of Vonno Lamar Gudger, former congressman of North Carolina's 11th Congressional district. In 1977, shortly after the election of Jimmy Carter as United States President, Joan Mondale, wife of Vice President Walter Mondale, visited North Carolina. Joan Mondale was an honorary guest at the 8th Annual American Craft Council National Conference, which was held in Winston-Salem that year; and she also attended the ground breaking for the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway above Asheville. Mrs. Robert B. Morgan was married to United States Senator Robert B. Morgan. The group is pictured with a number of double weave and single weave rivercane baskets. The photographer's name is unknown.

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

1977

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

North Carolina

8" x 10"(dimension)

Cherokee Traditions