130 AHOKHJINAL I'oTTKKV (if KASTKKN UNITED STATKS [mi. ann.20 



pi'onnmiccd. In nunicrous cases tlic inside of llie iij) liiis reeeix'cd a 

 yellowish fj'laze. Occasionally those vessels are recovered t'l'oiu Indian 

 mounds. In early times it was a common practice to ship olives to 

 America in earllien jars of this class. Illustrations are u-iveu in fij^-ure 

 5'.». A \-ery inlerestini;- specimen of this ware, tiji'ure Tiltr, may he 

 .seen in the Natural History' Mus(Mun at Boston. It is a jar with lono, 

 attenuated, conic base, whicli, with a jilass bottle, w^as found (Mubeddod 

 in a mass of coral obtained by dredgers from a coral reef otl' Turks 

 island at the point where the. Britisli frigate Severn is said to have 

 been wrecked about the year ITitH. In a few instances very large and 

 thick vessels of ten-a cotta have l)een reported, which are probably of 

 European origin, and an anti(|ue bath tub of glazed earthenware was 

 recently unearthed in one of .the (tulf states. 



POTTERY OF THE SOUTH APPALACHIAN PROVINCE 



EXTKNT OK TIIK PROVINCE 



A cultui'c proN'ince of somewluit marked characteristics comprises 

 the states of (ieorgia. South Carolina, and contiguous poi'tions of Ala- 

 bama, Florida, North C'arolina, and TcMmessec. On the arrival of the 

 whites a largo portion of this area was occupied or overrun by the 

 Creek Indians or their congeners, now included l)v Major Powell 

 under the h(;ad of the Muskhogean linguistic family. The early 

 explorers of this region referred to the tribes encountered as "Apa- 

 lachee,"' and the name Ai)palachian has been giviMi by our geographers 

 to the range of mountains that extends into the area from the north. 

 The designation of the culture area is therefore historically and geo- 

 graphically :i])pro])riate. The general area over which the pottery of 

 this group is distributed is indicated in the accompanying map. plate 



IV. 



Pkkvailing Tvi'Ks oi' Waek 



The C(M'amic phenomena of this pro\ince include one great group of 

 [)roducts to which has been given the name South .\.pi)alacliian stamped 

 ware, and also several less distinctly marked varieties, Ixdonging, in 

 the main, to grou])s typically d(n'elope(l in neighboring ar(>as. Of 

 these over]a])]iing varieties the Florida and (lulf Coast groups on the 

 south, the middle Mississi))})! \allev group on tlie west, and other 

 less striking \arieties on the north and east may bt' u)entioned. Tribes 

 of at least thi-ee of the stocks of people inhabiting this geiu'ral I'egion 

 continued the practice of the potter's art down to the pi'cscnt time. 

 Th(^ Calawbas and (^herokees are still engaged to a limited extent in 

 pottery making; and theChoctaws. Chickasaws, and Seminoles liav(\ if 

 the labeling of certain specimens now in the National Museum is cor- 

 rect, but nH'cntly abandoned the Mork. The mamifactur(> of eartluMi- 

 ware bv the two lii'st-mentioned tril)es is desci'il)cd in the introductory 

 pages of this paper, and illustrations are presented in this section. 



