 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
 | Lewis Henry Morgan - 1907 - 600 pages
...Tribes, remarks that "they make earthen pots of very different sizes, so as to contain from two to ten gallons, large pitchers to carry water, bowls, dishes,...impossible to name. Their method of glazing them is, they 1 Tylor's "Early History of Mankind," p. 265, "et seq." 1 "Geological Survey of Indiana," 1873, p.... | |
 | Aleš Hrdlička - 1916 - 588 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 experiment."... | |
 | William C. Orchard - 1918 - 588 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 experiment."... | |
 | Clarence Marsh Case - 1924 - 1026 pages
...tribes, remarks that " they make earthen pots of very different sizes, so as to contain from two to ten gallons, large pitchers to carry water, bowls, dishes,...them is, they place them over a large fire of smoky pitch-pine, which makes them smooth, black and firm." Another advantage of fixing definite ethnical... | |
 | John Reed Swanton - 1946 - 1106 pages
...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...of glazing them, is, they place them over a large flre of smoky pitch pine, which makes them smooth, black, and firm. Their lands abound with proper... | |
 | Thomas M. N. Lewis, Madeline Kneberg, Madeline D. Kneberg Lewis, Charles H. Nash - 1984 - 338 pages
...surface. Adair 23 describes a custom in the Southeast, ca. 1768, which may explain this characteristic: "Their method of glazing them, is. they place them...pitch pine, which makes them smooth, black and firm." The interior surfaces of these sherds will, on the other hand, absorb water, and frequently are brown... | |
 | Theda Perdue - 1998 - 270 pages
...Vessels included pitchers, bowls, dishes, basins, and platters. Adair said that "their method of gla2ing them, is, they place them over a large fire of smoky pitch pine, which makes them smooth, black and firm."3 3 The black color of Cherokee pottery led a Moravian to remark that it "looks like the iron... | |
 | Victor Buchli - 2004 - 364 pages
...Tribes, remarks that "they make earthern pots of very different sizes, so as to contain from two to ten gallons, large pitchers to carry water, bowls, dishes,...antiquated forms as would be tedious to describe, and 135 impossible to name. Their method of glazing them is, they place them over a large fire of smoky... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1893 - 784 pages
...lakes had made great progress in the manufacture of earthenware. Thus we are told that "the Rouuoke Indians have earthen pots, large, white, and sweet:"...Adair, p. 425. Among the Natchez these vessels were "d'un aseez beau rouge:" Du Pratz, II, p. 179: Paris, 1758. " The Naudowessies make black pottery nearly... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1893 - 862 pages
...told that "the Eoaiioke Indians have earthen pots, large, white, and sweet:" Hakluyt's Voyages, m, 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... | |
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