Woodcarving: donkey

Woodcarving: donkey

Handicraft

John C. Campbell Folk School

Wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Woodwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern

This donkey carved in apple wood is a rare example of a carving made by Marguerite Butler Bidstrup. Educated at Vassar, Marguerite Butler came south to teach at Kentucky's Pine Mountain Settlement School. She traveled to Denmark with Olive Campbell to study Danish folk schools and assisted in the founding of the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1925. Butler served on the school's board and was treasurer and assistant director at various times. She married the Folk School's farm manager and folk dance instructor, Georg Bidstrup, in 1936.

Bidstrup, Marguerite

Artifact Collection

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

1930s/1940s

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crafts (art genres)

StillImage

14901

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/14901

2007-10-08

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Clay County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

3.5x3x.1(dimension)

Craft Revival