Arizona Swayney Blankenship

Arizona Swayney Blankenship

Artisans

Arts and crafts movement

Basket makers

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Cherokee women

Handicraft

Manners and customs

This photograph, probably taken in the 1890s or early 1900s, shows Arizona Swayney, a Cherokee student at Hampton Institute, making a basket. To the right of the photograph are several finished rivercane baskets. Swayney attended Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, a school founded in 1868 to educate African American freedmen. In 1877, the school began a program for American Indians, and over 1,300 Indian students from 65 tribes attended in the following 50 years. Arizona Swayney (Blankenship) attended Hampton Institute from 1896 until 1903. She returned as a faculty member from 1904 to 1906 to teach basketry, pottery, and lacemaking. The name of the photographer is unknown.

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Archive Collection

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

1890/1910

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

7" x 5"(dimension)

Cherokee Traditions