Woodcarving: mule head bookend

Woodcarving: mule head bookend

Cherokee art

Cherokee Indians

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

Handicraft

Indigenous American wood-carving

Wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Woodwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern

This mule head bookend was carved out of walnut by Wahdih “Watty” Chiltoskie (1897-1973) in the 1930s or 1940s. Chiltoskie was the older brother of woodcarver Goingback Chiltoskey (1907-2000) and lived on the Qualla Boundary Cherokee Reservation. He sold his carvings through various regional shops such as the Southern Highland Craft Guild's Allanstand shop and the Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual cooperative. Note that Watty's last name is sometimes spelled Chiltosky or Chiltoskey.

Chiltoskie, Watty, 1897-1973

Permanent Collection

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

1930/1949

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

jpg;

crafts (art genres)

eng

StillImage

14999

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/14999

2008-03-06

All rights reserved. For permissions and use, contact Southern Highland Craft Guild Archives, Asheville, NC 28815

Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

9" x 5.5" x 3"(dimension)

Craft Revival