Aboriginal Pottery

of the Eastern United States

W. H. Holmes - 1903

2011 Reprint Edition

 Gustav's Library Vintage Reprint

Some extraordinary pottery artifacts found in the Eastern United States illustrates this in-depth study by a former director of the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology, William H. Holmes.  

This 7-3/4" x 10-3/4",  soft cover book is perfect bound, and its 581 pages include 177 single-sided, full page plates (7  full color), 79 illustrations  and a color pottery distribution map of the Eastern United States.   $27.95  

   

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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Ceramic art in human history Aboriginal American pottery Pottery of the eastern United States Geographic grouping Quantative distribution Manner of occurrence Chronology Functional grouping Classification of use Differentiation of use Vessels for culinary and other domestic uses Salt-making vessels Sugar-making vessels Spindle whorls of clay Musical instruments of earthenware Various implements of earthenware Baked-clay offering receptacles Cement and plaster Earthenware used in burial Personal ornaments of earthenware Earthenware disks and spools Earthenware tobacco pipes Materials Clay Tempering materials Manufacture The records First use of clay Shaping processes and appliances Decorating processes Baking processes Processes of manufacture in present use Manufacture by Catawba women Manufacture by Cherokee women Early accounts of manufacture Size Forms Pottery of the eastern United States—Continued. Color Color of paste Application of color Decoration Evolution of decoration Methods of decorating Relieved ornament Intaglio ornament Painted ornament Use of textiles in modeling and embellishing Relation of the textile and ceramic arts Classes of textile markings Use of baskets in molding and modeling Use of pliable fabrics in modeling Use of textiles in malleating surfaces Use of flat cord-wrapped malleating tools Use of cord-wrapped rocking tools Use of cords in imprinting ornamental patterns Various means of imitating textile characters Pottery of the middle Mississippi valley Geographic distribution Ethnic considerations Chronology Preservation State of culture of makers Uses Materials and manufacture Surface finish Color Form Range Esthetic modifications Animal forms Ornament Distinguishing characters of the group Sources of information Examples Platters, cups, and bowls Pots Bottles Eccentric and compound forms Life forms Tobacco pipes Miscellaneous articles Decorative designs Painted vases

Pottery of Tennessee Pottery of the lower Mississippi valley Pottery of the Gulf coast Occurrence Mobile-Pensacola ware Pottery of the Alabama river Pottery of Choctawhatchee bay Apalachicola ware Miscellaneous specimens Life elements in decoration Pottery of the Florida peninsula Historic aborigines Chronology Range of the ware Materials Manufacture Forms Decoration Uses Examples Midden ware of the St Johns Stamped ware of the St Johns Engraved ware of the St Johns Improvised mortuary ware of the St Johns Painted ware of the St Johns Pottery of the west coast Animal figures Tobacco pipes Spanish olive jars Pottery of South Appalachian province Extent of the province Prevailing types of ware Materials and color Form and size Uses Decoration Examples Vases Tobacco pipes Pottery disks Origin of the varieties of ware Pottery of the Middle Atlantic province Review of the Algonquian areas Pamlico-Albemarle ware Piedmont Virginia ware Potomac-Chesapeake ware General features Modern Pamunkey ware Shell-heap ware of Popes creek Potomac creek ware District of Columbia ware Ware of the Chesapeake and Eastern Shore Tobacco pipes Pottery of the Iroquoian province The Iroquoian tribes General characters of the ware Materials and manufacture Color, form, and size Ornament—plastic, incised, and relieved Distribution and characters of specimens Southernmost occurrence Lower Susquehanna pottery Pottery of northern Pennsylvania and Mew York Examples from New England Canadian ware Decorative designs Tobacco pipes The pipe a native product Distribution Material, color, and form Pottery of the New Jersey-New England province General characters Delaware valley ware New England ware Pottery of the Apalachee-Ohio province Ohio valley pottery Culture groups Miami valley ware Salt vessels Pottery of the Northwest Family distinction Rouletted and stamped ware Cord- and textile-marked ware Mandan pottery Pawnee pottery Other Northwestern pottery

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Indian woman of Florida, with earthen bowl and ears of corn (?). Use of the earthen pot in boiling. Drawn by John White, of the Roanoke colony, 1585-1588 Earthen vessels used in salt making, Middle Mississippi Valley group Map showing distribution of aboriginal pottery groups in eastern United States Series of outlines indicating range of form of vases, Middle Mississippi Valley group Series of outlines showing various features of vase elaboration, Middle Mississippi Valley group Vases of compound form, Middle Mississippi Valley group Cups and bowls, Middle Mississippi Valley group Cups and bowls, Middle Mississippi Valley group Large bowl, burial casket, and caldron, Middle Mississippi Valley group Cooking pots, etc., Middle Mississippi Valley group Large cooking pots, Middle Mississippi Valley group Bottles, Middle Mississippi Valley group Bottles, Middle Mississippi Valley group Bottles, Middle Mississippi Valley group Bottles, Middle Mississippi Valley group Various forms of bottles, Middle Mississippi Valley group Bottles of eccentric shape, Middle Mississippi Valley group Vessels imitating shell and gourd forms, Middle Mississippi Valley group Bowls imitating bird forms, Middle Mississippi Valley group Vessels imitating bird forms, Middle Mississippi Valley group Vessels imitating bird forms, Middle Mississippi Valley group Vessels imitating fish and batrachian forms, Middle Mississippi Valley group Vessels imitating animal forms, Middle Mississippi Valley group Vessels imitating animal forms, Middle Mississippi Valley group Vessels imitating the human form, Middle Mississippi Valley^roup Vessels imitating the human form, Middle Mississippi Valley group Vessel representing the potter at work, Middle Mississippi Valley group Vessels imitating the human head, Middle Mississippi Valley group Vessel imitating the human head, Middle Mississippi Valley group Vessel imitating the human head, Middle Mississippi Valley group Vessels imitating the human head, Middle Mississippi Valley group Tobacco pipes, Middle Mississippi Valley group Trowels or modeling implements, Middle Mississippi Valley group98 Modeling implements, Middle Mississippi Valley group Convex surfaces of trowels and modeling implements, Middle Mississippi Valley group Decorative designs, Middle Mississippi Valley group Decorative designs, Middle Mississippi Valley group Earthen vessels finished in color, Middle Mississippi Valley group Earthen vessels finished in color, Middle Mississippi Valley group Earthen vessels finished in color, Middle Mississippi Valley group Earthen vessels finished in color, Middle Mississippi Valley group Earthen vessels finished in color, Middle Mississippi Valley group Earthenware of Tennessee, Middle Mississippi Valley group Earthenware of Tennessee, Middle Mississippi Valley group Earthenware of Tennessee, Middle Mississippi Valley group Earthenware of Tennessee, Middle Mississippi Valley group Earthenware of Tennessee, Middle Mississippi Valley group Earthenware of Tennessee, Middle Mississippi Valley group Earthenware of Tennessee, Middle Mississippi Valley group Vases with incised designs, Lower Mississippi Valley group Vases with incised designs, Lower Mississippi Valley group Incised designs from vases shown in plates li and mi, Lower Mississippi Valley group Vases from a mound on Perdido bay, Gulf Coast group Large bowls with incised designs, Gulf Coast group Vases variously decorated, Gulf Coast group Vases with engraved figures of birds and serpents, Gulf Coast group Heads of birds and animals used as vase ornaments, Gulf Coast group Heads of men and bird used as vase ornaments, Gulf Coast group Vases with incised designs, Gulf Coast group Vases with incised designs, Gulf Coast group Burial vases with covers, Gulf Coast group Vessels of large size with incised and relieved ornaments, Gulf Coast group Bottle with scroll design and tobacco pipes, Gulf Coa»t group Bowls with incised designs, Gulf Coast group Platters with incised designs, Gulf Coast group Vessels with incised designs, Gulf Coast group Fragment of vase with duck's head in relief, and vase representing a hunchback human figureLXIX. Vase with engravings of an eagle and an eagle-man mask, Gulf Coast group Platter and bowls with engraved designs, Gulf Coast group Outlines of vases with engraved designs, Gulf Coast group Bowls and bottles with engraved designs, Gulf Coast group Bowls with relieved and incised decorations representing the frog concept, Gulf Coast group Bowls with relieved and incised decorations representing the bird concept, Gulf Coast group Bowl inverted over a skull in burial, Gulf Coast group Vases with engraved and stamped designs, Gulf Coast group Vases with engraved designs, Gulf Coast group Group of vases from a Florida mound, Gulf Coast group Unique bottle with engraved designs, Gulf Coast group Bird-form vases with incised decorations suggesting the origin of many conventional ornaments Vases with incised and relieved decoration, northwest Florida coast Vases of exceptional forms, northwest Florida coast Engraved designs representing the bird concept, Gulf Coast group Engraved designs representing the frog concept, Gulf Coast group Engraved designs, Gulf Coast group Engraved designs, Gulf Coast group Fragments of pottery from shell heaps, Florida peninsula Pottery with stamp decoration, Florida peninsula Pottery with stamp decoration, Florida peninsula Pottery with stamp decoration, Florida peninsula Pottery with stamp decoration, Florida peninsula Vases with relieved and engraved designs, Florida peninsula Fragments of vases with engraved designs, Florida peninsula Rude earthenware from graves, Florida peninsula Rude earthenware from graves, Florida 'peninsula Rude earthenware from graves, Florida peninsula Rude earthenware from graves, Florida peninsula Rude earthenware from graves, Florida peninsula Rude earthenware from graves, Florida peninsula Rude earthenware from graves, Florida peninsula Rude earthenware from graves, Florida peninsula Large painted vessel with open base, Florida peninsula Fragments of painted vessel with open base, Florida peninsula Decorated vases, Tarpon Springs, Florida peninsula Vases with engraved designs, Tarpon Springs, Florida peninsula Vases with engraved designs, Tarpon Springs, Florida peninsula Engraved designs, Tarpon Springs, Florida peninsula Fragments of decorated ware and compound cup, Florida peninsula Engraved and painted vases, Tarpon Springs, Florida peninsula Cluster of vases in sand mound burial, Florida peninsula Potsherds with ornate stamp designs, Florida peninsula Potsherds with griddle-like stamp designs, Florida peninsula Handled cups and various sherds from the west coast, Florida peninsula Tobacco pipes, Florida peninsula Burial vases with covers, South Appalachian group Cherokee stamp-decorated pot and paddle stamps, South Appalachian group Stamp designs restored from impressions on vases, South Appalachian group Typical specimens of stamp-decorated ware, South Appalachian group Large vase decorated with fllfot stamp design, South Appalachian group Vases decorated with paddle-stamp impressions, South Appalachian group Vases of varied design and embellishment, South Appalachian group Engraved designs from vases shown in plates cxvm and exx, South Appalachian group Bowl with elaborate engraved decorations, South Appalachian group Large vessels from eastern Georgia, South Appalachian group Figurines from northwestern Georgia, South Appalachian group Figurines from northwestern Georgia, South Appalachian group Tobacco pipes from burial mounds, South Appalachian group Tobacco pipes from burial mounds, South Appalachian group  Tobacco pipes from burial mounds, South Appalachian group Modern pottery of the Catawba and Cherokee Indians, South Appalachian group Modern tobacco pipes of the Catawba Indians, South Appalachian group Pottery from burial mounds in North Carolina, South Appalachian group Kitchen midden pottery with varied markings, Chesapeake-Potomac group Kitchen midden pottery of the Yadkin valley, Chesapeake-Potomac group Kitchen midden pottery of the Yadkin valley, Chesapeake-Potomac group Potsherds with textile markings, New River valley, Virginia, Chesapeake-Potomac group Potsherds with textile markings from Luray, Virginia, Chesapeake-Potomac group Incised designs from pottery and tattoo marks, Chesapeake-Potomac group Pottery of the Pamunkey Indians, Virginia, Chesapeake-Potomac group Pottery from shell heaps at Popes creek, Maryland, Chesapeake-Potomac group Pottery from shell heaps at Popes creek, Maryland, Chesapeake-Potomac group Pottery from shell heaps at Popes creek, Maryland, Chesapeake-Potomac group Pottery from Potomac creek, Virginia, and Anacostia, District of ColumbiaCXLI. Pottery from the vicinity of Washington, District of Columbia, Chesapeake-Potomac group Tobacco pipes of the Potomac valley, Chesapeake-Potomac group Pottery from a burial place near Komney, West Virginia, Iroquoian group Pottery from a village site at Bainbridge, Pennsylvania, Iroquoian group Vases from graves, northern Pennsylvania, Iroquoian group Vases from graves, northern Pennsylvania, Iroquoian group Vases from graves in Pennsylvania and New York, Iroquoian group Vases from the province of Ontario, Canada, Iroquoian group Incised designs from vases, Iroquoian group Incised designs from vases, Iroquoian group Incised designs from vases, Iroquoian group Incised designs from vases, Iroquoian group Faces and figures from vases, Iroquoian group Earthenware pipes, Iroquoian group Earthenware pipes, Iroquoian group Earthenware pipes, Iroquoian group Earthenware pipes, Iroquoian group Pottery from a village site near Trenton, New Jersey, New England group Pottery from the Atlantic Coast states, New England group Pottery from New England, New England group Vases of Middle Mississippi type, Ohio Valley group Sherds with incised decorations from a village site at Fort Ancient, Ohio Valley group Vases from mounds at Madisonville, Ohio Valley group Vases illustrating textile imprintings, Ohio Valley group Incised decorations from earthenware, Ohio Valley group Sherds of stamped and rouletted pottery, Naples, Illinois, Northwestern group Sherds of stamped and rouletted pottery, Naples, Illinois, Northwestern group Vases decorated with the roulette, Illinois, Northwestern group Examples of roulette-decorated ware, Northwestern group Examples of roulette-decorated ware, Northwestern group Examples of roulette-decorated ware, Northwestern group Examples of roulette-decorated ware from Hopewell mounds, Ohio, Northwestern group Large vase from a village site, Two Rivers, Wisconsin, Northwestern group Potsherds from a village site, Two Rivers, Wisconsin, Northwestern group Pottery of the Mandan Indians, Dakota, Northwestern group Pottery irom the Missouri valley (?), Northwestern group Pottery from a Pawnee village site, Nebraska, Northwestern group Pottery from Potomac creek, Virginia, and Anacostia, District of Columbia Pottery from the vicinity of Washington, District of Columbia, Chesapeake-Potomac group Tobacco pipes of the Potomac valley, Chesapeake-Potomac group Pottery from a burial place near Komney, West Virginia, Iroquoian group Pottery from a village site at Bainbridge, Pennsylvania, Iroquoian group Vases from graves, northern Pennsylvania, Iroquoian group Vases from graves, northern Pennsylvania, Iroquoian group Vases from graves in Pennsylvania and New York, Iroquoian group Vases from the province of Ontario, Canada, Iroquoian group  Incised designs from vases, Iroquoian group Incised designs from vases, Iroquoian group Incised designs from vases, Iroquoian group Incised designs from vases, Iroquoian group Faces and figures from vases, Iroquoian group Earthenware pipes, Iroquoian group Earthenware pipes, Iroquoian group Earthenware pipes, Iroquoian group Earthenware pipes, Iroquoian group Pottery from a village site near Trenton, New Jersey, New England group Pottery from the Atlantic Coast states, New England group Pottery from New England, New England group Vases of Middle Mississippi type, Ohio Valley group Sherds with incised decorations from a village site at Fort Ancient, Ohio Valley group Vases from mounds at Madisonville, Ohio Valley group Vases illustrating textile imprintings, Ohio Valley group Incised decorations from earthenware, Ohio Valley group Sherds of stamped and rouletted pottery, Naples, Illinois, Northwestern group Sherds of stamped and rouletted pottery, Naples, Illinois, Northwestern group Vases decorated with the roulette, Illinois, Northwestern group Examples of roulette-decorated ware, Northwestern group Examples of roulette-decorated ware, Northwestern group Examples of roulette-decorated ware, Northwestern group Examples of roulette-decorated ware from Hopewell mounds, Ohio, Northwestern group Large vase from a village site, Two Rivers, Wisconsin, Northwestern group Potsherds from a village site, Two Rivers, Wisconsin, Northwestern group Pottery of the Mandan Indians, Dakota, Northwestern group Pottery from the Missouri valley (?), Northwestern group Pottery from a Pawnee village site, Nebraska, Northwestern group

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