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  • Born and raised in the Swimmer Branch section of the Qualla Boundary, William Lossiah (b. 1937) is a craftsman of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. His mother, Betty Lossiah was a basket weaver; his father, Thomas Lossiah was a medicine man who also carved stone. For over a decade, he demonstrated arrowhead making and the use of blowguns and darts at the Oconaluftee Indian Village. He left there to open a craft business with his wife, Martha, a basket weaver. In 1981 the Lossiahs were honored with an exhibition of their work at Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, an artisan cooperative. Several of his stone pipes are in the collection of the Smithsonian.
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