CHEROKEE STAMPED POT
Work Record
Class: decorative arts • Native American pottery • Mississippian Period
*Work Type: • vessel (cooking pot) • ceramics
*Title: Stamped Pot or Stamped Vase or Stamped Vessel
*Creator Display: • unknown Southeastern Cherokee
*Role: • potter: • unknown Southeastern Cherokee
*Creation Date: • ca. 900 • Earliest: 900 • Latest: 1500
*Subject: • object (utilitarian) • clay cooking pot • storage
*Culture: • Cherokee • Mississippian
*Current Location: Cherokee Heritage Center (Tahlequah, Oklahoma, United States)
Creation Location: unknown (Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, United States)
*Measurements: unavailable
*Materials and Techniques: • Red Clay • Water • Pit fire pottery • Paddle stamp technique
Material: • red clay [links]: • wooden paddle stamp
Technique [links]: Paddle stamped pottery
Description: A traditional Cherokee stamped pottery revealing the paddle stamp technique, with symbols pressed into the surface of the clay. The pots are meant to be ornate with ritualistic designs. They also hold a ceremonial and practical usage. This style of the stamped pot and symbols are a characteristic of the Mississippian era for the Cherokee, which was a time when new art practices and techniques were created and refined in an abundance. The stamping technique has been found on various Cherokee pottery pieces going back thousands of years, it is distinctive to the culture. The symbols that are carved into the wooden stamp, are present throughout other prehistoric Cherokee vessels.
Cherokee Stamped Pot (900-1500C.E.)
Gallery
This is a map depicting where Cherokees resided before the forced removal known as the "Trail of Tears". The states where communities populated were Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina.
Image of the Cherokee Stamped Pot. It was taken from the book, "Cherokee Pottery: People of One Fire"
Ceramic Stamped Pot completed by Cora Arch Wahnetah ca.1970's. Image: from the book "Cherokee People: From the Hands of our Elders"
This is a map depicting where Cherokees resided before the forced removal known as the "Trail of Tears". The states where communities populated were Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina.