Model Straightback Chair
Will West Long, Cherokee / American, 1870 - 1947
Cherokee
Eastern Band of Cherokee
Southeast
collected about 1903-1909
Stained rhododendron wood
Overall: 10 1/2 × 6 7/16 in. (26.7 × 16.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9933
Geography
Place Made: Cherokee, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Furniture: Seating
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Southeast
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, on the back on the top of splat, in Cherokee syllabary: "We-lee-wes-tee"
Provenance
Will West Long (Wil-lee-wes-tee), Cherokee, North Carolina; collected byClara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Cherokee, North Carolina, 1907; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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