Ray Mann portrait

This picture shows woodcarver Ray Mann carving a small figure. Mann learned to carve at the John C. Campbell Folk School under instructors Murrial Martin and Jack Hall. In fact, his father-in-law was Brasstown carver Elisha Allen Hall, brother of John and Ben Hall, and Jack Hall's uncle. Mann has sold work through the school's woodcarving cooperative know as the Brasstown Carvers. Ray worked mainly in cherry, walnut and buckeye and carved dogs, cows, oxen, mad mules and braying donkeys. This photograph was taken from a booklet published by the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1990 titled "The Brasstown Carvers" with text by Bill Biggers, photographs by Werner Kahn and Bill Biggers