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Native American Pottery
Native pottery was
usually made by firing clay that had been shaped and then
decorated in a variety of ways. It is thought today that most
Native American pottery was made by women. Thousands of pottery
shards have been recovered by archeologists in Frederick County,
and these artifacts demonstrate the ubiquitous practice of
aesthetic enhancement of everyday objects in Native American
cultures prior to European settlement. Because these shards
represent both Iroquian and Algonquin decorative cultures,
they show that Frederick County witnessed a cross-linking
of cultures long before the arrival of the Germans, English,
Scots, Irish, and Africans.
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| Native American Vessel recoved
in Frederick County1 |
Partial reconstruction of a Frederick
County Native American vessel 2
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Shard of Native American
pottery found in Frederick County by Spencer Geasy. 3 |
1 and 2 are courtesy
the Archeological Conservation Laboratory at the Jefferson
Patterson Park and Musuem
Photo 3 is courtesy Specer Geasy.
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