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Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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MUSEUMS AND GIFT SHOPS Near the Park Perhaps nowhere in America, save in and near the boundaries of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, have the crafts and modes of living of two widely divergent types of civilization been preserved in so small an area for the studv of the people. In the coves and valleys of the Great Smokies are the little one- and two-room cabins of those people whose ancestors have, for generations, lived in just such homes. They still weave cloth at old hand looms and make their furniture of hickory "splits." They lead simple, self-sufficient lives, and the mountain handicraft forcibly reminds that true beauty is in simplicity of line and coloring. At the southern edge of the park is the home of the Eastern Nation of Cherokee Indians. In spite of schooling and contact with the outside world, they have stubbornly kept intact their heritage of ancestral lore. Their pottery is still moulded by hand and baked near an open fire. Their dance-masks, their eating implements carved from the rhododendron, and their bows and blowguns faithfully echo the life of their fathers. , Examples of the mountain and Indian crafts may be obtained at many places throughout East Tennessee and Western North Carolina. TENNESSEE Gatlinburg Great Smoky Mountains Museum: Indian relics antique weapons. war relics; exhibit of Indian.bead work, battle array, ceren on.a garment*; exhibit of one-room settler's mountam cabin equ.pped with hundred-year-old articles. Arrow Shop: Indian and mountain crafts. Quaint Shoppe: Gifts, novelties, antiques, pottery hook rug*, wcav ing, mountain handicraft, basketry, Indian goods. 121
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This 146-page “Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park” was published in 1933, a year before the park was formally established. In spite of this oddity, the guide does carry the approval of the National Park Service, stated on its cover. The book was printed in a small format as a field guide that could be carried on a hike. Topics covered in the guide include tours and trails, notes on camping and fishing, and sections on flowers and fauna. Separate sections deal with local culture, including “The Highlanders” and “The Cherokee Indians.” The guide was written by George McCoy and George Masa. McCoy was a staff writer for the Asheville Citizen and native of Dillsboro, North Carolina. Photographer George Masa, a native of Japan, was active in the Appalachian Trail Club and in the movement to establish the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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