Velma Lossiah

Velma Lossiah

Artisans

Cherokee women

Handicraft

Jewelry

Velma Lossiah (b. 1941) is a beadworker. She grew up on Qualla Boundary’s Big Cove community, home to many of the Cherokee’s best known craftsmen. Still, she was self taught beadworker. She specializes in the use of glass seed beads and creates beaded jewelry. In this photograph, Joan Mondale (standing center), wife of Vice President Mondale, stands beside craft advocate, Mollie Blankenship (standing right). Others in the group are members of Mondale’s delegation. The photograph was made on June 7, 1977 when Mrs. Mondale attended the ground breaking of the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, NC. Mondale was accompanied by the wife of the U.S. Senator from North Carolina, Robert B. Morgan, and Mrs. Lana Gudger, wife of Vonno Lamar Gudger, a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina's 11th District. The photographer's name is unknown.

Unknown

Photograph Collection

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

1977-06-07

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photographs

StillImage

16479

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2010-04-06

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

10" x 8"(dimension)

Craft Revival