Eva Wolfe with spinning wheel

Eva Wolfe with spinning wheel

Basket makers

Cherokee women

Handicraft

Manners and customs

Spinning -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Spinning-wheel

Weavers -- North Carolina, Western

Textile machinery

While this photographic postcard does not identify this weaver, she appears to be Eva Wolfe. Eva Queen Wolfe (1922-2004) was an accomplished Cherokee weaver. She is shown here working on a great wheel or walking wheel, which was traditionally used to spin cotton or short-staple wool into thread. Such wheels were often used by craftswomen in cottage industries to produce thread for sewing as well as yarn for weaving. Also in this photograph are two baskets, one of white oak to the left of the large log mortar and another of rivercane, woven in the "Noonday Sun" pattern, behind the young girl.

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Photograph Collection

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

Asheville Post Card Co.

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2009-01-15

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

8" x 10"(dimension)

Cherokee Traditions