Amanda Swimmer, Cherokee Indian Potter

Amanda Swimmer, Cherokee Indian Potter

Artisans

Cherokee pottery

Cherokee women

Handicraft

Pottery

This undated color brochure is titled “Amanda Swimmer/ Cherokee Indian Potter.” It was probably created to accompany an exhibition of Swimmer’s work at Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual in Cherokee in the 1980s. A self-taught potter of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Amanda Sequoyah Swimmer was born in 1921, the youngest of 12 children. She was raised in the Straight Fork section of Big Cove, a remote section of the Qualla Boundary. For many years, she worked at Oconaluftee Indian Village where she was originally hired to demonstrate finger weaving. She quickly switched to pottery, learning from fellow demonstrators. Swimmer uses traditional techniques and tools, never a potter’s wheel. She presses designs onto the surface of the clay with wooden paddles or incises linear designs using sharp stick. The subtle coloration on her pots comes from burning them with different types of wood.

United States. Indian Arts and Crafts Board

Membership Records

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

1980/1990

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publications (documents)

eng

StillImage

16549

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2010-09-17

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

8.75" x 8.5"(dimension)

Craft Revival