Papers and drawings for Cherokee Indian materials
Culture:
Language: English
Date: 1893-1948
Contributor: Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Witthoft, John | Mooney, James, 1861-1921
Subject: Anthropology | Ethnography | Material culture | Social life and customs | Clothing and dress | Warfare | Masks | Dance | Games | North Carolina--History | Rites and ceremonies
Type: Still Image
Genre: Sketches | Photographs | Negatives
Extent: 19 pages
Description: This collection consists of 28 sketches, 8 black and white silver gelatin photographs, and 2 negatives of North Carolina Cherokee artifacts from ca. 1893-1948. Presumably collected by Frank Speck with John Witthoft during the latter's graduate field work, the images reflect the social life and customs of the Cherokee including war clubs, garments, Deer & Bear masks, rattles and dance formations. Of the dances presented are the Pigeon, Partridge, Corn, Beaver, Green Corn, and Ball game. Of note, an 1893 photograph by Mooney depicting Cherokee men and women in native attire at a ceremony before a ball game. The sketches are noted in Murphy Smith's Historical American Sketches.
Collection: Papers and drawings for Cherokee Indian materials Mss.970.3.W78