Woodcarving: bookends

Woodcarving: bookends

Cherokee art

Cherokee Indians

Handicraft

Indigenous American wood-carving

Woodwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern

This photograph, taken by an unknown photographer, is of a pair of matching bookends carved in walnut by renowned Cherokee craftsmen Goingback Chiltoskey in 1932 (Chiltoskey's last name is sometimes seen spelled Chiltosky or Chiltoskie). On the reverse side of one bookend is the notation "1932, Goingback Chiltoskey, Haskell Institute." The Haskell Institute, originally the United States Indian Industrial Training School in Lawrence, Kansas, opened in 1884 and served as an Indian boarding school. 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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crafts (art genres)

StillImage

15532

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2008-11-04

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

8" x 10"(dimension)

Craft Revival