Eva Wolfe

Eva Wolfe

Basket makers

Basket making

Basketwork

Cherokee baskets

Cherokee women

Handicraft

Manners and customs

In this undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph, Cherokee basket weaver Eva Queen Wolfe (1922-2004) is shown splitting rivercane in preparation for making a rivercane basket. Wolfe is shown on the porch of her home in Big Cove. Living and working in the Big Cove community northeast of Cherokee, Eva Wolfe was a master basket weaver who specialized in baskets made from rivercane. She was born in the Soco Community of the Qualla Boundary and studied basket weaving in high school under her aunt, Lottie Queen Stamper. Over the course of her lifetime, Wolfe won many local and national awards in recognition of her work. These included numerous prizes in competitions at the annual fairs held on the Qualla Boundary as well as awards from the North Carolina Folklore Society, National Endowment for the Arts, and the United States Department of Interior.

United States. Indian Arts and Crafts Board

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

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2008-11-04

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

10" x 8"(dimension)

Cherokee Traditions