Pottery: vase

Pottery: vase

Cherokee pottery

Handicraft

Pottery

This clay vase 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. Made from natural clay, the exterior of this pot has been burnished. The curve of the pot is incised with a double row of diamond shapes. It was donated to the Southern Highland Craft Guild by the Grovewood Gallery in Asheville, North Carolina.

Bigmeat family

Permanent Collection

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

1980/1990

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crafts (art genres)

StillImage

16501

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/16501

2010-09-27

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

3.5" x 4"(dimension)

Craft Revival