Mask: wood

Mask: wood

Cherokee Indians

Handicraft

Indigenous American masks

Indigenous American wood-carving

Woodwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern

This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph is of a wildcat mask carved from buckeye wood by Cherokee mask maker, Allen Long (1917-1983). Long was born and raised in the Big Cove community of Cherokee, North Carolina. When he was 12 years old, Long learned how to make masks from his father, Will West Long (1870-1947), a medicine man and authority on Cherokee cultural traditions. Allen Long made a variety of masks including the booger mask, medicine man, warrior, and wildcat. Primarily, he carved masks from buckeye and stained them with shoe polish, a technique he used instead of the traditional red clay stain which was not permanent. In 1975, the Indian Arts and Crafts Board and Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual honored him with an exhibition of his work.

Long, Allen, 1917-1983

United States. Indian Arts and Crafts Board

Photograph Collection

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

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2010-06-04

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

8" x 10"(dimension)

Craft Revival