Mask: wood

Mask: wood

Handicraft

Indigenous American masks

Indigenous American wood-carving

Woodwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern

This undated mask, made by Cherokee artisan Davis Welch, is carved and left unpainted. Different types of masks were traditionally used in Cherokee culture for a variety of ceremonial purposes. Today, masks are still used in ceremonial dances. The images depicted on masks include a variety of animals, often bear or deer, as well as variations on the “booger” mask. Artisans also make masks depicting the seven Cherokee clans.

Welch, Davis

Artifact Collection

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

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crafts (art genres)

StillImage

16584

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/16584

2009-12-02

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

10.75" x 5.75" x 4.0"(dimension)

Craft Revival