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153 Ferrell, Stephen, and T. M. Ferrell. Early Decorated Stoneware ofthe Edgeftetd District, South Carolina [exhibition catalog] (Greenville, S.C.: Greenville County Museum of Art, 1976). Greer, Georgeanna H. "Preliminary Information on die Use of Alkaline Glaze for Stoneware in die Soudi: 1800-1970," in The Conference on Historic Site Archaeology Papers 1970 (5) (1971): 159, 161-62. "Groundhog Kilns — Rectangular American Kilns of the Nineteendi and Early Twentiedi Centuries," Northeast Historical Archaeology 6(1-2) (1977): 42-54. "Alkaline Glazes and Groundhog Kilns: Soudiern Pottery Traditions," Antiques 61 (4) (1977): 42-54. Greer, Georgeanna H., and Harding Black. The Meyer Family: Master Potters of Texas (San Antonio, Tex.: Trinity University Press for die San Antonio Museum Association, 1971). Guilland, Harold F. Early American Folk Pottery (Philadelphia, Pa., and New York: Chilton Book Company, 1971). Hough, Walter. "An Early West Virginia Pottery," Report of the U.S. National Museum for the Year Ending June 29, 1899. (Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1901). Malone, James M., Georgeanna H. Greer, and Helen Simons. Kirhee Kiln: A Mid-19th Century Texas Stoneware Pottery. Office of the State Archaeologist Report 31. (Austin, Texas: Texas Historical Commission, 1979). Ramsay, John. American Potters and Pottery (Boston, Mass.: Cushman and Flint, 1939; reprinted by Tudor Publishing Company, New York, 1947). Rinzler, Ralph. "Cheever Meaders: North Georgia Potter (1887-1967)," in Forms upon the Frontier, eds. Austin Fife, Alta Fife, and Henry Glassie. Utah State University Monograph Series 16 (2) (1969): 77-78. Sayers, Robert. "Potters in a Changing South," in The Not So Solid South: Anthropological Studies in a Regional Subculture, ed. J. Kennedi Morland. Proceedings of die Southern Anthropological Society 4 (1971): 93-107. Schwartz, Stuart C. "Traditional Pottery Making in me Piedmont," Tarheel Junior Historian 17 (2) (1978): 22-29. 1978). North Carolina Pottery: A Bibliography (Charlotte, N.C.: Mint Museum of History, South, Stanley, ed. The Conference on Historic Site Archaeology Papers 1970, vol. 5, pt. 2. (Columbia, South Carolina, 1971). Sweezy, Nancy. "Tradition in Clay: Piedmont Pottery." Historic Preservation 27 (4) (1975): 20-23. Vlatch, John M. The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press for die Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978). Zug, Charles G., III. "Pursuing Pots: On Writing a History of North Carolina Folk Pottery," North Carolina Folklore Journal 27 (2) (1979): 34-35.
Notes Preface NOTES 1. Byington, Robert H., ed. Working Americans: Contemporary Approaches to Occupational Folklife. Smithsonian Folklife Studies No. 3. (Los Angeles, Calif.: California Folklore Society, 1978); reprinted from Western Folklore 37 (3) (1978) for the Smithsonian. 2. Rinzler, Ralph, and Robert Sayers. The Meaders Family: North Georgia Potters. Smithsonian Folklife Studies No. 1. (Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980). 3. Vennum, Thomas, Jr. The Ojibwa Dance Drum: Its History and Construction. Smithsonian Folklife Studies No. 2. (Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, [in progress]). 4. McCarl, Robert S. "Occupational Folklife: A Theoretical Hypothesis," in Working Americans: Contemporary Approaches to Occupational Folklife. Smithsonian Folklife Studies No. 3. (Los Angeles, Calif.: California Folklore Society, 1978), pp. 3-18. 5. Ibid, p. 6. 6. Wheat, Margaret, and Katherine Fowler. Tule Technology: Northern Paiute Uses of Marsh Resources in Western Nevada. Smithsonian Folklife Studies No. 4. (Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, [in progress]). 7. Green, Archie. "Industrial Lore: A Bibliographic-Semantic Query," in Working Americans: Contemporary Approaches to Occupational Folklife. Smithsonian Folklife Studies No. 3 (Los Angeles, Calif.: California Folklore Society, 1978), p. 91. 8. Mead, Margaret. [Introduction] "Visual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words," in Principles of Visual Anthropology, ed. Paul Hockings (The Hague and Paris: Mouton Publishers, 1975), pp. 4-5.
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CheeverMeaders, circa 1933. (Photo
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The publication of this monograph w
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Editor's Preface In 1978, the Smith
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when the pace of work and passage o
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Introduction This handmade pott'ry
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We made a commitment to document th
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E. Richard Sorenson seven months af
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pace. Thus, we arrived just as a ki
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them by pottery entrepreneurs. The
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ville to the lumber mill at Helen,
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well known to scholars, kindly prov
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The Meaders Family I remember very
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oad tunnel" kiln and a mule-drawn "
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Hall County, and several of the Whi
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crocks, cover them with a sheet, hi
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and the Meaderses. Around 1920, an
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to Arie and Cheever Meaders in litt
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Figure 6. Cheever Meaders and his c
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Joiirnal and Constitution mum i in
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Adanta and Asheville. Cheever's wor
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esiding in his parents' small cotta
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Work Processes Our approach to pott
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SHELVES o L WHEEL STORAGE TABLE WEb
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Figure 12. The pottery yard, 1967-6
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textured yellow clays in the other
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Figure 15. Lanier's electric mud mi
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^///M/M$zzzn ty/W'""/"PZa Figure 16
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Figure 17. Crib assembly, showing b
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vessels turned to the same height a
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Contouring tools. (Photos by Ralph
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Figures 21, 22, 23. Turning a six-g
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Figure 23a. Rejoining top and botto
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Metal pottery lifters. Figure 25a.
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would roll out short pieces of soft
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Like the Meaderses' treadle wheels,
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Figure 29. The bottom side of the u
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to handle the glazed ware very care
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the next (fig. 33). In general, the
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All of the traditional ware was pla
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from an earlier dollar-a-cord. As t
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squeeze the excess moisture out, an
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had been turned too thin for the cl
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while a prefired and hammered clay
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thin with a slight twist to one sid
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children would file out to the work
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with the previous night's whole mil
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Figure 39b. Bottom of the pitcher,
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Figure 40. A four-gallon churn comm
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98 water and washed; then they were
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Figure 41. Three storage vessels: a
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100 many as 300-400 stoneware fruit
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