Cherokee artifacts

Cherokee artifacts

Cherokee Indians -- Material culture

Handicraft

Indigenous American masks

Indigenous American wood-carving

Musical instruments

Pottery

This photograph, taken in 1932, was included in the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 133, published in 1943. It shows a variety of Cherokee craft and dance objects including, clockwise from top left, a set of clothing, a feather headdress and feathered dance wand (used in the Eagle Dance), a two-person saw, a mask (possibly a booger mask), several walking sticks, a wooden carving, a pottery vessel, two chairs that look to have woven rivercane bottoms, a wooden dance drum with a head made from animal hide, two mask blanks, a bow with arrows, and a small gourd rattle. These items presumably belonged to Will West Long, who in addition to being an authority on Cherokee culture and folklore, especially concerning medicine and spiritual practices, was a talented woodworker known for his hand carved wood dance masks. The name of the photographer who captured this shot is unknown.

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Photograph Collection

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

1932

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

8" x 10"(dimension)

Craft Revival