AN EXHIBITION OF SKILL BY A CHEROKEE MARKSMAN WITH BOW AND ARROW. CHEROKEE INDIAN RESERVATION, CHEROKEE, N. C. Date: Circa 1940 Source Type: Postcard Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Ashville Post Card Company, Metropolitan Post Card Company (#N331, #46752) Postmark: None Collection: Steven R. Shook TEXT ON REVERSE: Located on the extreme western boundary of North Carolina and adjoining the Great Smokey Mountains National Park, the Qualla Reservation, consisting of 63,000 acres, represents a typical part of the vast mountain domain that once was owned and occupied by the Cherokee Indians. In the Cherokee Hall of Fame, three names are written above all others -- Chief Junaluska, a warrior statesman; Sequoyah who devised a language for the Cherokees and a printing press for its use and Tsali, the greatest hero of all who gave his life so that the remainder of the Cherokees could live on their original land.

This extreme miniature has my signature of painstaking research -beginning with the handpainted and carefully bent flags. The model, itself, is produced in various woods of pine, birch and bass. Handcrafted in minute detail with full accurate interiors and color, the replica is full-rigged with carved blocks and linen thread which compliment the treated paper sails and markings for the period.