William Lossiah

William Lossiah

Artisans

Handicraft

Indigenous American wood-carving

Manners and customs

Wood-carvers

Wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Born and raised in the Swimmer Branch section of the Qualla Boundary, William Lossiah (b. 1937) is a craftsman of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. His mother, Betty Lossiah was a basket weaver; his father a medicine man. As a child, he avoided school and considered his father to be his teacher and inspiration. As an adult, he demonstrated arrowhead making and the use of blowguns and darts at the Oconaluftee Indian Village, where he worked for twelve seasons. He left there to open a craft business with his wife, Martha, a basket weaver. In 1981 the Lossiahs were honored with an exhibition of their work at Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, an artisan cooperative.

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Photograph Collection

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

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StillImage

11071

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2012-01-25

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

10" x 8"(dimension)

Cherokee Traditions