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Catawba Valley. C.1875. Catawba Valley Pottery describes alkaline glazed stoneware made in the Catawba River Valley of Western North Carolina from the early 19th century, as well as certain contemporary pottery made in the region utilizing traditional methods and forms. The earliest Catawba Valley pottery was earthenware made by the Catawba ...
Georgia Harris (July 29, 1905 – January 30, 1997) was known for preserving traditional forms of Catawba pottery. A member of the Catawba Tribe in South Carolina, Harris was a recipient of the National Heritage Fellowship for her work.
Bertha George Harris (June 29, 1913 – October 14, 2014) was an American Catawba tribal elder and master potter.She specialized in a specific type of pottery unique to the Catawba, which she crafted from river clay without the use of electricity or a potter's wheel. [2]
Later Woodland and Mississippian populations practiced pottery and agriculture and established more permanent settlements at Big Rock. European settlers traveled to the area on the Great Wagon Road starting in the 1740s and by the 1760s the native Catawba people were displaced to their current reservation in South Carolina .
The Catawba have also been known as Esaw, or Issa (Catawba iswä, "river"), named after their territory along the principal waterway of the region.Historically, Iswa, today the river is commonly known as the Catawba River from its headwaters in North Carolina and into South Carolina before continuing as the Wateree River in Fairfield county, South Carolina.
The Catawba Nation has the longest pottery-making tradition in North America and influenced Cherokee pottery making. Women were traditionally the potters in both Catawba and Cherokee cultures. Cherokee pottery was made using a coil building method, imprinted with designs using carved wooden paddles, and polished using stones.
In 1966 Patricia Holden was the first to publish such an analysis of Pisgah pottery. [8] Pisgah phase pottery, unlike the vast majority of Mississippian culture pottery, used sand as a tempering agent instead of ground mussel shell. [11] The pottery is typified by collared rims and rectilinear, complicated stamp decoration. [12]
Sites with similar pottery characteristics have the same culture, those sites which have distinct cultural characteristics but with some overlap are indicative of cultural exchange such as trade or living in vicinity or continuity of habitation, etc. Examples are black and red ware, redware, Sothi-Siswal culture and Painted Grey Ware culture.