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Bow with Cherokee Alphabet

Unknown

Eastern Woodlands, Cherokee

circa 1890

Osage orange wood, rawhide, paint

1970.13.1

On View

Hunting & War

Gift of Max & Eula Fullerton

The Cherokee syllabary was created by Sequoyah in the late 1810s and is the foundation of the Cherokee language. Sequoyah’s brilliance was that he is only one of a handful or people or cultures ever to create an independent and unique writing system.

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