Cherokee women making pottery
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA INV 9400200 ; OPPS NEG 1033
label: Local Note
content: This picture same as 1034-a-2, of series dated on catalog card as 1900.
name: label: Creator
content: Mooney, James, 1861-1921
creator: label: Creator
content: Mooney, James, 1861-1921
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Glass Negatives / Mooney, James
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Glass negative (Copy, 8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1888
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.176, Item Negative 1033
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Glass negatives
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Woman at right is Katalsta, daughter of Yanaguski, "Drowning Bear," head chief of the East Cherokee about 1838. Information from caption of this photo, reproduced in Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (right half only), 63:8 (SI-EEW for 1913), figure 60, page 62, "Among the East Cherokee Indians of North Carolina." (re Mooney's field work). Holmes, 20th AR, Bureau of American Ethnology, page 53, 56, mentions Mooney's 1888- or 1890 visit to Cherokee, and prints information received from Mooney re Cherokee pottery making. Gives names of three Cherokee women potters as Uhyunli, 75 years of age, Katalsta, about 85 years of age, and Ewi Katalsta, daughter of the last named, about 50 years old. Negative copy from film by James Mooney, 1888 ? Right half only - reproduced in Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 63:8 (SI-EEW for 1913), figure 60, page 62 re Mooney's field work.