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Re: native pottery part 2
iowabow:
I have been writting to a few other colleges and universities to get more information about the process. So far not good ...just have not found the right guy that has done a ton of it.
iowabow:
After 24 hours my coil has shrunk by 3/4 of an inch. I started with a 10" coil. So far this is a good sign. This weekend the kiln will fire this peice to around 1200 degress f.
Eric Krewson:
I found this bowl back in the 70s before digging up stuff was illegal. A bunch of us were hunting arrowheads on Long Island in the Tn River adjacent to Bridgeport Al. As we walked around a burial mound we noticed someone had dug into the mound and left. It had rained and washed out more of the dig, the bottom of a pot and some rib bones were exposed in the washed out place.
We scratched around a bit, turned out there were 5 pots if I remember right, a complete skeleton from the pelvis up and three trophy skulls positioned around the skull of the main man. My bowl had tree roots growing through it as did several others, one pot was pristine. We took the pots home with us but chose to rebury the the remains of the deceased.
I remember one pot had a frog effigies on the sides, don't know what purpose the round spots on my bowl were intended. We split up the loot, don't know where the other pots ended up.
iowabow:
Great things are happening the heat shrink test worked out nice. There was very little change in the length durning the firing.
iowabow:
Crazy results the surface was scratched and the clay was orange. Ok now we have more questions.
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