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with the manufacture of certain types of pottery. For a complete 

 description of this the reader is referred to a paper by M. R. Har- 

 rington (1908, pp. 399-407). The same student has published an 

 account of the related Cherokee pottery work (Harrington, M. R., 

 1922). It is to be noted that the modern Catawba potters use no 

 tempering, and that the old Cherokee woman who described and 

 illustrated the process to Mr. Harrington stated that it was some- 

 times employed, but she did not employ it herself. This seems to 

 represent a process of degeneration. 



But the study of pottery in the Southeast is mainly an archeologi- 

 cal problem, and concerns a branch of anthropological work into 

 which I do not propose to enter. 



MISCELLANEOUS HOUSEHOLD UTENSILS 

 WOODEN STOOLS 



In parts of the Southeast, wooden stools made in one piece were 

 in use similar to the so-called duhos of the West Indies. If they were 

 introduced from the islands, however, it must have been before white 

 contact for when De Soto met Tascalusa, the great Mobile chief, 

 according to Garcilaso (1723, p. 145), he "was seated upon a wooden 

 chair about two feet high, without back or arms, and all of one piece." 

 And that this was no mere inference on the Inca's part is shown 

 by the fact that, in the early part of the eighteenth century, a stool 

 of this kind having four legs constituted the "throne" of the Great 

 Sun, head chief of the Natchez (Le Page du Pratz, 1758, vol. 2, pp. 

 360-361; S wanton, 1911, p. 112). Speaking of these stools generally 

 as found on the lower Mississippi, Du Pratz says: 



The natives have small seats or stools . . . These seats are only 6 or 7 inches 

 high. The feet and the seat are of one piece. (Le Page du Pratz, 1758, vol. 2, 

 p. 182; Swanton, 1911, p. 61.) 



He expresses a doubt whether their use had antedated the importa- 

 tion of European axes considering "their small inclination to sit on 

 them," but this is not justified in the light of the reference above 

 given added to a note by Adair (1775, p. 421), who remarks: "Their 

 stools they cut out of poplar wood, all of one piece, and of a con- 

 venient height and shape." 



When De Gourgues visited the Timucua chief Saturiwa in 1567, the 

 latter placed him on "a seat of wood of lentisque [gum wood] 

 covered with moss, made of purpose like unto his own" (Laudonniere, 

 1586, p. 209; Swanton, 1922, p. 354). While these may have been 

 merely parts of the bed with which every house of any size was 

 provided, they were more probably stools. The fact that they were 

 used by chiefs or honored men falls in line with what has already 



