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Reviving ancient methods
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Several Cherokee potters, including gallery owner Joel Queen, are resurrecting a style of pottery last used more than 250 years ago. Such pots, which are coil-built, shell-tempered and burnished, were used for cooking, serving food and holding water. Some are large enough to hold 20 gallons, and all are modeled after ones used mainly in the Cherokee Overhill towns of East Tennessee. The modern replicas will be part of a traveling show sponsored by the Museum of the Cherokee Indian and the Cherokee Preservation Foundation and funded through a grant from the “We the People” project with the National Endowment for the Humanities. The exhibit, titled “Emissaries of Peace: The 1762 Cherokee/British Delegations,” will open in October at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. After the show there it will travel to Knoxville, Tenn., and, still later, to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. “It’s really great to be a part of bringing back this type of pottery that hasn’t been made in this area in so long,” Queen said. – Herald photo by Derek Hodges |
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