| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 223 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Contemporary American Indian studies
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Contemporary American Indian studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-208) and index. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Catawba pottery -- Themes, motives.
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Catawba pottery. |
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Themes, motives. |
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Catawba Indians.
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Catawba Indians. |
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Pottery craft -- South Carolina.
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Pottery craft. |
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South Carolina. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Blumer, Thomas J., 1937- Catawba Indian pottery. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2004 0817313834 9780817313838 (DLC) 2003012348 (OCoLC)52386382 |
| ISBN |
9780817381684 (electronic book) |
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0817381686 (electronic book) |
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0817313834 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0817350616 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780817313838 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780817350611 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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