Woodcarving: walnut plaque

Woodcarving: walnut plaque

Cherokee art

Cherokee Indians

Handicraft

Indigenous American wood-carving

Woodwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern

This photograph, taken by an unknown photographer, is of a walnut plaque carved by renowned Cherokee woodcarver, Goingback Chiltoskey (also spelled "Chiltosky" and "Chiltoskie"). This plaque has Goingback Chiltoskey's name and the year "1933" carved on the back. At that time, Chiltoskey was studying at the American Indian Art Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Goingback Chiltoskey (1907-2000) was a native of Cherokee, North Carolina who trained in woodworking and art at the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas and the American Indian Art Institute in Santa Fe. He began teaching woodworking at the Cherokee High School in 1935. He worked as a model maker for the U.S. Army during World War II and continued his craft after retiring in 1966. He was known for his many carvings of animals and people and worked primarily in native woods like walnut, cherry, apple, buckeye, and holly.

Chiltoskey, Goingback, 1907-2000

Unknown

Photograph Collection

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

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2008-11-04

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

8" x 10"(dimension)

Craft Revival