Mask: wood

Mask: wood

Handicraft

Indigenous American masks

Indigenous American wood-carving

Woodwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern

This Wolf mask, made by Cherokee artisan June Welch, is carved and painted. 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. The mask is dated, "1973" and included an inscription written in the Cherokee syllabary.

Welch, June

Artifact Collection

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

1973

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crafts (art genres)

StillImage

16589

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/16589

2009-12-08

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

12.5" x 8.5" x 4.5"(dimension)

Craft Revival