Catawba Indian pottery: the survival of a folk tradition
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1. Verfasser: Blumer, Thomas J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press ©2004
Schriftenreihe:Contemporary American Indian studies
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-208) and index
Discovering the Catawba -- A family economy based on pottery -- Peddling pottery -- The Indian circuit -- Teaching the craft -- Professionalism and the Catawba potters -- A native resource, clay -- Tools: ancient and modern adaptations -- Building pots: woodland and Mississippian methods -- Design motifs -- The pipe industry -- Burning the pottery
A comprehensive study that traces the craft of pottery making among the Catawba Indians of North Carolina from the late 18th century to the present. When Europeans encountered them, the Catawba Indians were living along the river and throughout the valley that carries their name near the present North Carolina-South Carolina border. Archaeologists later collected and identified categories of pottery types belonging to the historic Catawba and extrapolated an association with their protohistoric and prehistoric predecessors. In this volume, Thomas Blumer traces the construction techniques of th
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ISBN:0817381686
9780817381684

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