To all Colono-ists:
Here is a provisional list of sources that may be used to add the European
dimension to the origins of Colono pottery in America.
---Ned Heite
Edward F. Heite
1993 Folk Technology and Creolization Reconsidered. Quarterly Bulletin
Archeological Society of Virginia 48 (March):1-13.
Discusses the origins of dugout canoes, clay pipes, and colono ware pottery in
the Virginia area. Disputes the Noel Hume and Ferguson assumptions that the
Europeans could not have known how to make the ware.
Lynggaard, Finn
1972 Jydepotter og Ildgrave. J. Fr. Clausen, Kobenhavn.
This book, in Danish with English translation, describes the manufacture of
"black" pottery in Jutland during the preset century. When you see a sherd of
this pottery, you will believe you are looking at colono!
Peacock, D. P. S.
1982 Pottery in the Roman world:an ethnoarcheological approach.
Longman, London.
Professor Peacock summarizes the European tradition of household pottery
production. This should be required reading for anyone working in Colono
pottery. Don't let the title put you off. It is not about Roman archaeology at
all.
Holleyman, G. A.
1946 Tiree Craggans. Antiquity 21:205-209
Describes the manufacture of hand-built pottery in the Hebrides during the
present century.
"O.G.S.C"
1936 News and Notes: Modern Red-Burnished Pottery in Grand Canary.
Antiquity 10:86-87.
This describes another "Colono" in Grand Canary, which could have derived from
either European or African antecedents, but inserted here to demonstrate the
universal nature of the hand-built traditions that are all over.
Steensberg, Axel
1940 Hand-made pottery in Jutland. Antiquity 14:148-153.
The plates with this article illustrate the manufacture techniques and the pot
forms current in Jutland before World War II. The illustrated pots include
several imitations of iron pots, quite similar to at least one
mid-seventeenth-century Virginia example.
Harrington, M. R.
1908 Catawba potters and their work. American Anthropologist
10:399-407.
Pipe molds collected for the Heye Collection, shown on plate xxiii, are clearly
copies of the moulds used at Salem, N.C., during the eighteenth century, and of
moulds collected recently in Appomattox County, Virginia. These particular items
were collected in York County, South Carolina. The pot shapes include iron-pot
forms, just like the Jutland pots.
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