Cherokee Potter http://cherokeepotter.com Indian pottery Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:58:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en Cherokee fair http://cherokeepotter.com/?p=5 http://cherokeepotter.com/?p=5#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:58:25 +0000 cher http://cherokeepotter.com/?p=5 Cherokee Indian Fair in Cherokee,NC
This celebration is  nearly a century-old .
It includes artwork,crafts,agricultural items and traditional foods made by local artisans. Native Americans vendors from throughout the region participate in craft sales, including bead work, belts,white oak baskets and pottery.
The fair includes Entertainment shows.

]]> http://cherokeepotter.com/?feed=rss2&p=5 Pottery http://cherokeepotter.com/?p=3 http://cherokeepotter.com/?p=3#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:56:49 +0000 cher http://cherokeepotter.com/?p=3 Prior to the coming of Europeans, the inhabitants of both the North and South American continents (the native Indians) had a wide variety of pottery traditions. But there is no evidence to show that the potter’s wheel was used by them , before the Europeans introduced it.

All known Pre-Columbian American pottery was entirely by handmade, using a number of traditional pottery techniques. These include

  • sculptural modeling
  • press molding
  • coiling,
  • paddling.

Functional pottery objects were produced by the many cultures show that

  • many of the tribes were nomadic
  • they believed in afterlife
  • had a pastoral society.
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