United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027Stansberry, David1730/1770This is a photograph of mid-18th century European silver broaches and earrings recovered from excavations at the Overhill Cherokee Village of Chota. Chota or Echota was an Overhill Cherokee village located in what is today Monroe County, Tennessee. In the mid-18th century, Chota was recognized by Europeans as well as other Indians for its powerful socio-economic influence and was regarded as the capital of the Cherokee Nation. Chota, as with all the Overhill Cherokee sites, is now inundated by the Tellico Reservoir. Excavations of Overhill Cherokee villages were conducted by the University of Tennessee between 1967 and 1983 as part of the Tellico Archaeological Project. Excavations continued until 1983, and laboratory studies and report preparation continued until 1987. The excavations were conducted in anticipation of the flooding of the Lower Little Tennessee River Valley, in eastern Tennessee, by the Tellico Dam Reservoir. The excavations were conducted under contract with the National Park Service and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Principal Investigator, Alfred K. Guthe.Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2000, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.text/htmlimage/jpegmm006engPhotograph held by the Frank H. McClung Museum, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, photograph mm006.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: AT&T DjVu browser plug-in needed to view images of documents.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Cherokee IndiansCherokee artAntiquitiesArtSalvage archaeologyHistoric sitesEarringsBrooches[Photograph of mid-18th century European silver brooches and earrings] / [by David Stansberry]StillImage