Pottery: vase

Pottery: vase

Cherokee pottery

Handicraft

Pottery

This blackware pottery vase was made by Louise Bigmeat Maney (1932-2001). Louise Bigmeat was raised on Wrights Creek in the Painttown community of Cherokee, North Carolina. A member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, she was a third-generation potter. While she was a young child, she and her two sisters began making pottery with their mother, Charlotte Welch Bigmeat (1887-1959). Louise Bigmeat married John Henry Maney and, together they established Bigmeat House of Pottery. In 1979, the Indian Arts and Crafts Board and Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual organized an exhibition of pottery by the Bigmeat sisters; in 1998, Louise Bigmeat Maney received a North Carolina Folk Heritage Award. The exterior of the pot is incised with lines forming the Friendship pattern. The potter's name is marked on the base. It was donated to the Southern Highland Craft Guild by the Grovewood Gallery in Asheville, NC.

Maney, Louise Bigmeat, 1932-2001

Permanent Collection

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

1980/1990

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2010-09-27

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

6" x 4.5"(dimension)

Craft Revival