Chiltoskey, Goingback, 1907-2000
Cherokee tribal elder Goingback Chiltosky was a master woodcarver who influenced several generations of carvers. His work includes carvings of animal and human subjects, often in native woods such as cherry, walnut, holly apple, and buckeye, but he also carved request orders from exotic woods. In addition to freestanding pieces, he carved large bas-reliefs. He said he always thought of his own “trademark as being a smooth finished piece of wood with a minimum of fine detail.”
Born in the Piney Grove community of the Qualla Boundary, he began his long and diverse career of carving at the age of ten when his brother Watty gave him a knife and a few instructions. Forced to attend the Cherokee boarding school, where only English could be spoken, he found comfort in whittling wood. Eventually he learned he could sell these small carvings. He attended high school at Parker District School in Greenville, South Carolina, because of its woodcarving program. He continued his studies of woodcarving and other crafts at the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas, and at the United States Indian School in Santa Fe, New Mexico, before returning home in 1935 to teach woodworking and woodcarving at Cherokee High School.
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