Growing
up in the Birdtown community of Cherokee, North
Carolina, Virgil Ledford spent much of his time
with his great-grandfather who “could carve
anything he wanted.” In high school, he
studied with the late renowned Cherokee carver
Amanda Crowe and went on to be a master carver
of animals and legendary Cherokee figures. His
sculpture of Sequoyah was purchased by the Tennessee
Valley Authority for the official opening
of the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum in Vonore, Tennessee,
and his sculpture of a Cherokee hunter with an
eagle has became the official logo of the Museum
of the Cherokee Indian.
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