make earthen pots of very different sizes, so as to contain from 2 to 10 gallons ; large pitchers to carry water; bowls, dishes, platters, basins, and a prodigious number of other vessels of such antiquated forms as would be tedious to describe and impossible... Congressional Serial Set - Page 5911892Full view - About this book
| Archibald Loudon - 1811 - 364 pages
...to contain from two to ten gallons, large pitchers to carry water; bowls, dishes, platters, basons, and a prodigious number of other vessels of such antiquated...pitch pine, which makes them smooth black and firm. Their lands abound with proper clay, for that use ; and even with porcelain, as has been proved by... | |
| Gates Phillips Thruston - 1890 - 434 pages
...that when he visited them — as late as 1774 — they made " earthern pots containing from two to ten gallons, large pitchers to carry water, bowls, dishes,...would be tedious to describe and impossible to name;" a statement that certainly accurately describes the motley assortment of pottery we find in our Tennessee... | |
| Lucien Carr - 1893 - 106 pages
...lakes had made great progress in the manufacture of earthenware. Thus we are told that "the Roanoke Indians have earthen pots, large, white, and sweet:"...Adair, p. 425. Among the Natchez these vessels were "d'un assez beau rouge:" Du Pratz, II, p. 179: Paris, 1758. " The Naudowessies make black pottery nearly... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1893 - 816 pages
...told that "the Roauoke Indians have earthen pots, large, white, and sweet:" Hakluyt's Voyages, ill, p. 304. The Creeks, Chickasaws, etc., "make earthen...Adair, p. 425. Among the Natchez these vessels were "d'un assez beau rouge:" Du Pratz, II, p. 179: Paris, 1758. " The Naudowessies make black pottery nearly... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1893 - 786 pages
...have earthen pots, large, white, and sweet:" Hakluyt's Voyages, III, p. 304. The Creeks, CMckasaws, etc., "make earthen pots of very different sizes,...Adair, p. 425. Among the Natchez these vessels were "d'un assez beau rouge:" Dn Pratz, II, p. 179: Paris, 1758. " The Naudowessies make black pottery nearly... | |
| Lucien Carr - 1895 - 44 pages
...to contain from two to ten gallons, large pitchers to carry water, bowls, dishes, platters, basons and a prodigious number of other vessels of such antiquated...them is, they place them over a large fire of smoky pitchpine, which makes them smooth, black and firm."2 In addition to this liberal supply of table ware,... | |
| American Antiquarian Society - 1895 - 494 pages
...ten gallons, large pitchers to carry water, bowls, dishes, platters, basons and a prodigious nufnber of other vessels of such antiquated forms as would...them is, they place them over a large fire of smoky pitchpine, which makes them smooth, black and firm."a In addition to this liberal supply of table ware,... | |
| American Antiquarian Society - 1896 - 478 pages
...to contain from two to ten gallons, large pitchers to carry water, bowls, dishes, platters, basons and a prodigious number of other vessels of such antiquated...them is, they place them over a large fire of smoky pitchpine, which makes them smooth, black and firm."2 In addition to this liberal supply of table ware,... | |
| Alice Morse Earle - 1902 - 460 pages
...contain from two to ten gallons, large pitchers to carry water, bowls, platters, dishes, basons, and_a prodigious number of other vessels of such antiquated...method of glazing them is, they place them over a large pit of smoky pitch pine which makes them smooth, black, and firm. Their lands abound with proper clay... | |
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