Pottery: bowl with handles

Pottery: bowl with handles

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

Handicraft

Pottery

This pottery bowl was made by Maude Welch probably in the 1930s or 1940s. It features two handles shaped like heads. The signature on bottom reads "Made By Maude Welch Cherokee, N.C." scratched into clay and "275" "LSS" written in pencil. This bowl has many small cracks. Welch was born in 1894 near Cooper's Creek in the Bird Town section of the Cherokee Reservation, also known as Qualla Boundary. Welch's pottery was handbuilt and carved from local clay, dried without a kiln, dropped in a firebox for color, and polished by hand.

Welch, Maude, b. 1894

Mountain Heritage Center Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1930/1949

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crafts (art genres)

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StillImage

15341

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/15341

2008-02-27

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

2.5" x 9"(dimension)

Craft Revival