Cherokee pottery exhibit

Cherokee pottery exhibit

Cherokee pottery

Handicraft

Museum of the Cherokee People

Pottery

This photograph, by an unknown photographer, shows a pottery exhibit on display at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, circa 1976. Many of the pieces resemble pottery that was known to have been made by the Cherokee prior to European contact. Pottery vessels were particularly valuable in Native American culture, as they provided a means to cook food over a fire. The distinctive rounded or cone-shaped bottoms of traditional Cherokee cooking vessels could be balanced on rocks in a fire and provided an even cooking surface without putting out the fire.

Unknown

Photograph Collection

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

1976

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15541

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2009-01-27

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

3.5" x 4.5"(dimension)

Craft Revival