Catawba Indian pottery
Subtitle: the survival of a folk tradition
By: Thomas John Blumer ; with a foreword by William Harris.
Series: Contemporary American Indian studies
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Catawba pottery -- Themes, motives.; Catawba Indians -- Industries.; Pottery craft -- South Carolina.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: Discovering the Catawba; title: A family economy based on pottery; title: Peddling pottery; title: The Indian circuit; title: Teaching the craft; title: Professionalism and the Catawba potters; title: A native resource, clay; title: Tools: ancient and modern adaptations; title: Building pots: woodland and Mississippian methods; title: Design motifs; title: The pipe industry; title: Burning the pottery.