Fred Wilnoty: Cherokee Stone Carver

Fred Wilnoty: Cherokee Stone Carver

Cherokee art

Cherokee artists -- North Carolina

Cherokee Indians -- Social life and customs

Manners and customs

Stone carvers -- North Carolina

Stone carving -- North Carolina

Wilnoty, Fred, 1964-

Fred Wilnoty, a self-taught Cherokee stone carver of ceremonial peace pipes and staffs, finds inspiration through spending time in nature. In this video interview, Wilnoty explains that his carvings bring out what is meant to be seen in the stone. The transcript provided is an unedited version of the video.

Western Carolina University. Mountain Heritage Center

Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual Collection

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

2011; 2010-04-15

Brewin, David

Carroll, Tonya

Evans, Ashley T.

Wilnoty, Fred, 1964-

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

mp4; pdf;

video recordings (physical artifacts)

interviews

eng

MovingImage

Text

11660

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/11660

2015-07-16

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Qualla Boundary

North Carolina, Western

North Carolina

00:05:06 (video recording)(dimension)

18 pages (transcript)(pages)

Cherokee Traditions