Sylvester Crowe: Cherokee Bow Maker

Sylvester Crowe: Cherokee Bow Maker

Bow and arrow making

Cherokee art

Cherokee artists -- North Carolina

Cherokee Indians -- Social life and customs

Crowe, Sylvester

Manners and customs

In this video interview, Cherokee carver Sylvester Crowe recalls from his childhood bow and arrow shooting as a social activity for the community, rather than for hunting as it was for his ancestors. He carves his bows and arrows primarily out of yellow locust and adds three feathers on each arrow. 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; 2010-03-01

Bartel, Katherine

Crowe, Sylvester

Evans, Ashley T.

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

mp4; pdf;

video recordings (physical artifacts)

interviews

eng

MovingImage

Text

11675

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/11675

2015-07-16

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Qualla Boundary

North Carolina

North Carolina, Western

00:04:12 (video recording)(dimension)

22 pages (transcript)(pages)

Cherokee Traditions