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Work Processes
Our approach to pottery technology is a step-by-step reconstruction
of work around the Meaders pottery as would have occurred during
Cheever Meaders's last year. Since the Smithsonian Institution was
filming the family in May of 1967 —six months before Cheever's
death —this time frame allows for a coordination of film and monograph.
Interview materials were collected in that year and in 1968. To
apprise the reader of events mat have occurred from 1967 to the
present, a separate short section compiled from interviews with
Lanier Meaders and his mother in 1976, 1978, and 1979 has been
appended to the narrative body.
Figure 9. The Meaders pottery site, circa 1978-79. (Illustration by Daphne
Shutdeworth.)
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