Pottery: bear paw

Pottery: bear paw

Cherokee pottery

Handicraft

Pottery

This blackware bear paw was made by the Bigmeats, a family of Cherokee potters. Charlotte Welch Bigmeat (1887-1959) had five daughters, all of whom made pottery: Tinie Bigmeat Thompson (1913-1999), Ethel Bigmeat Queen (1916-1942), Elizabeth Bigmeat Jackson (1919-2008), Mabel Bigmeat Swimmer (1925-1991), and Louise Bigmeat Maney (1932-2001). Louise Bigmeat Maney later opened up a storefront studio and called it Bigmeat House of Pottery. 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.

Bigmeat family

Permanent Collection

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

1980/1990

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crafts (art genres)

StillImage

16497

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/16497

2010-09-27

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

1.5" x 5.5" x 6"(dimension)

Craft Revival