Goingback Chiltoskey

Goingback Chiltoskey

Artisans

Cherokee Indians

Handicraft

Indigenous American wood-carving

Manners and customs

Wood-carvers

This 1982 photograph, by an unknown photographer, is of Cherokee woodcarver Goingback Chiltoskey. Chiltoskey (1907-2000) was a native of Cherokee, North Carolina who trained in woodworking and art at the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas and the American Indian Art Institute in Santa Fe. Note that his last name is sometimes seen spelled Chiltosky or Chiltoskie. He began teaching woodworking at the Cherokee High School in 1935. He worked as a model maker for the U.S. Army during World War II and continued his craft after retiring in 1966. He was known for his many carvings of animals and people and worked primarily in native woods like walnut, cherry, apple, buckeye, and holly.

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Photograph Collection

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

1982

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2008-11-04

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

7" x 5"(dimension)

Cherokee Traditions