| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 223 pages) : illustrations |
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Contemporary American Indian studies |
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Contemporary American Indian studies.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-208) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Catawba pottery -- Themes, motives
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Catawba Indians.
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Pottery craft -- South Carolina
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ART -- Ceramics.
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CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Pottery & Ceramics.
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Catawba Indians
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Pottery craft
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South Carolina
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780817381684 |
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0817381686 |
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