Imagine you are watching someone spin a mysterious brown block on this odd contraption which they operate with their foot. Their hands are constantly touching it, shaping and forming it into something that you can’t quite tell what it is. They turn all of their concentration to make every single detail so precise. This is the beauty of pottery making. Some people find it hard to believe that a clump of sticky, dry, squishy, chalky dirt can be transformed into a beautiful vase, bowl or plate. Something ugly and old can be turned into something valuable and colorful. Pottery making is an art that requires skill, patience and consistency. Not only does it occur all over the world, but there are new ideas being made every day to improve the art.
The history of pottery dates back to 5000 BC where the Sumerians or the Chinese invented the potter’s wheel. The potter’s wheel is a mechanism that allows potters to shape clay so that it is symmetrical. (8) Although this was the first form of pottery discovered by historians, the first sight of pottery in North America was the Native Americans. Different tribes made different types of pottery. They used pottery to store food, medicine, herbs and water. Native American pottery was and is still colorful. (6) When new colonies were formed in America pottery became a part of their new life. There wasn’t much they could do without pottery. To be a colonial potter you had to find a good piece of land that offers many natural resources to live off of, usually land to supply the potter with clay and wood. (4) American potters did not make pottery for their own satisfaction; they made pottery to get the needs of the common man.
Potters would make things such as storage jars, jugs, pitchers, bowls, cu...
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Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft is a concise, 231 page informational text by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum. Published in 1974, it explores the economic and social conditions present in the Salem village during the 1600s that led to the hysteria surrounding witchcraft. Multiple graphs and illustrations are present, as well as an average sized font, an abundance of footnotes typically on the left page, and a prominent voice from the authors. The book was written to serve as a more comprehensive informational piece on the Salem witch trials due to the authors finding other pieces written about the same topic to be inaccurate. Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum wanted to create something that utilized
George the Second, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, King, Defender of the Faith, I write to thee from the heart of South Carolina, Charleston to impart my knowledge of the region. My travels have been long and arduous. I arrived by way of a freight ship bearing finished goods for the colony on the twenty-eighth day of March, in the twenty-third year of thy reign. All that province, territory, or tract of ground, called South Carolina, lying and being within our dominions of America is well.
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft explores and breaks down the events that took place in the small village of Salem in 1692. Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, authors of Salem Possessed, use primary sources, both published and unpublished, to tell the crazy and eventful history of Salem. They go into great detail in why some folks were accused of being Witches, the arrests and the so popular Salem Witch Trials. The main reason for this book was to try and find out what caused the terrible outbreak of events that happened in Salem and they do so by looking into the History and Social life in the famed Salem Village. The history of Witchcraft in Salem is a well-known story from High School on and this book goes in depth about why things happened the way they did and how the social aspect played a big role is the story.
The Shang Dynasty invented and, over the years, perfected the technique of casting a bronze vessel from a clay mold assembly, which this wine vessel has also been made from using those techniques (Cantor). This mold was formed around a model of the vessel and was then cut into sections that were carved or impressed in the desired design, in this case the braided or grid design, on the inner or outer surfaces. The decorated clay piece-mold was then fired and reassembled around a clay core. Small bronze spacers were used to hold the piece-mold and the clay core apart. Then, molten bronze was poured into the mold. Using this piece-mold casting technique helped the bronze worker to achieve greater sharpness and definition in any intricate design
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Navajo pottery exhibits isosceles triangles, line bordering dots, and hooked spirals, and other figures as in Figure 3 (Live Auctioneers, 2016).
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On the Warka Vase shown on register 4 naked men carry three types of pottery and at least three of these pottery pieces hold some objects, this implies that all three types of pottery are holding some object or objects, since the men are taking the pottery to the same location. One of these pottery pieces appears to be a piece made to pour, and hold, liquids. This pouring vessel is again seen in an image on another vase (20), this vase seem t...
The North Carolina was founded in 1653 by the virginia colonist. The North Carolina colony was classified as a southern colony. Carolina is derived from the latin name Carolus. During the 1600s they realized its not possible for one governor and one assembly to run Carolina. The major settlements in North Carolina were Cape Fear, Charles Town, and Albemarle. The geographics of the North Carolina area are coastal plains, plateau, and mountain ranges. The climate in the North Carolina colony was not hard to survive until the summer came because the hot humid air in the summer made a rise in disease it was mostly warm all year round besides the winter but then it still isn't hard to survive because it wasn't too cold like it is in alaska or someplace
The religion of Witchcraft dates back about 25,000 years, to the Paleolithic Age, where the God of Hunting and the Goddess of Fertility first appeared. Out of respect for the overwhelming power of Nature grew a belief in beings, gods, who controlled the winds, the seas, the earth and the fires (Rinehart). People have been slaughtered for ages because they had different belief systems or they simply were not liked. Whether they were witches or not, hundreds of thousands of people have been burned at the stake, dunked in freezing rivers, or otherwise tortured because people accused them of being witches.
Shaw, Madelyn. “Slave Cloth and Clothing Slaves: Craftsmanship, Commerce, and Industry.” Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts. Mesda Journal. 2012. Web. 13 Nov. 2013. .
Black-figure painting was first established in Corinth, c 700 BCE then Athens was influenced by the technique and got control over it (Cartwright, 2012). The entire process was made out of iron clay found in the area mixed with potash pigment, water and leave it evaporate under the sun until it’s thick and settle. Move on to wedging process where human used energy to make the clay combine together and create the smoothness. The forms of potter are made on the potter wheel and are control by human’s hands, which is fascinating because people will have respect toward a finished product. After shaping the entire form, it’s then bake inside a kiln until it turns black (Britannica, 2014). Black-figure painting usually presents a storytelling by depicting animals or people in silhouette and sometime th...
“If anyone, deceived by the Devil, shall believe, as is customary among pagans, that any man or woman is a night-witch, and eats men, and on that account burn that person to death... he shall be executed” (Charlemagne) When the words witchcraft or magic are spoken, most people think of the Salem Witch trials or the popular television characters that we have today. But do we really know what happened centuries ago that caused the creation of these ideals and these characters we have grown to adore? Witchcraft still has a tight hold on the mind of many and continues to influence the gap between the popular and elite cultures of today.
What do you think when someone calls someone a witch? What comes to mind? Do you think of the movie, ‘Hocus Pocus’ or do you think of the black pointed hats and the long black, slit ended dresses? What about witchcraft? Does the term “Devil worshiper” ever cross your mind? Do you think of potions and spells? For many, many generations, we have underestimated what the true meaning of a witch and what witchcraft really is. What is the history that hides behind it? Witches and witchcraft have been in our history since the ancient times. There is a little bit more than the ghost stories told on Halloween, the movies shown on TV and dressing up on Halloween.
On display in the beginning of this back room was a bunch of different sizes bowls that were well decorated, crafted, and painted. In this section I learn that “In 1954 Ladi Kwali became the first woman member of a pottery training center established in Abuja, Nigeria and still remains its best known artist skilled in tradition methods of hand-built pottery.” Which is metaphoric because usually the pottery was created by women, crafting its shape, size, and designs all by hand; they used wood to help create and be a mold for the shape of the pots. These pots were used daily naturally for various reasoning’s like cooking and storing water, during dry months or so that the women wouldn’t have to walk far from the villages to fetch the water. Some of them had coloring to them and I’m sure this came from plant dyes, the pottery was known to be very fragile and heavy, which is not hard to understand why given their circumstances. With the coloring the colors can convey important messages but may not always be symbolic or have a meaning depending on the culture. African cultures vary in meaning and traditions as it comes to the design work and colors of their materials and clothing. Bowling making goes hand in hand with the African baskets and weaving which is a huge part of the culture and daily life of African