Wiliwesti's Artifacts

Wiliwesti's Artifacts

Cherokee Indians -- Material culture

Handicraft

Indigenous American masks

Indigenous American wood-carving

Musical instruments

Pottery

This photograph, taken in 1932 by an unknown photographer, is from the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 133, published in 1943. It is titled, "Wiliwesti's Artifacts" and shows a variety of Cherokee craft items including, clockwise from top left, a set of clothing, a feather headdress and Eagle Dance wand with feathers attached (used in the Eagle Dance), a two-person saw, a mask (possibly a booger mask), two walking sticks, a pottery vessel, two chairs that look to have rivercane woven bottoms, a wooden crock or churn, 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.

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Library Collection

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

1932

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology

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publications (documents)

eng

StillImage

16026

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2008-11-25

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

4.25" x 3"(dimension)

Craft Revival