Louise Bigmeat Maney

Louise Bigmeat Maney

Artisans

Cherokee women

Handicraft

Louise Bigmeat Maney (1932-2001) was raised on Wrights Creek in the Painttown community of Cherokee, North Carolina. A member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Maney was a third-generation potter. While she was a young child, she and her two sisters began making pottery with their mother, Charlotte Welch Bigmeat (1887-1959). Louise Bigmeat married John Henry Maney and, together, they established Bigmeat House of Pottery. In this photograph, Maney talks with Joan Mondale (standing center), wife of Vice President Mondale and members of a 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.

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Photograph Collection

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

1977-06-07

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StillImage

16480

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2010-04-06

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

10" x 8"(dimension)

Craft Revival