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Catawba Indian pottery : the survival of a folk tradition / Thomas John Blumer ; with a foreword by William Harris.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blumer, Thomas J., 1937-
- Series:
- Contemporary American Indian studies.
- Contemporary American Indian studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catawba pottery--Themes, motives.
- Catawba pottery.
- Catawba Indians--Industries.
- Catawba Indians.
- Pottery craft--South Carolina.
- Pottery craft.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-208) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8168-6
- OCLC:
- 427509614
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