Witches of the Vampir Metrou: Three of us faculty took 35 students to the Big E the other day. Although quite chilly, the day was beautiful. Fun bit was, they are all independent and didnt need hand holding. I got to enjoy the Harvest Festival on my own. This was one stall in the historical section. I will post more about it tomorrow including what I bought. Colonial face jugs ~ The origins of the face jug, a folk tradition among African American potters in the South, remain obscure. Some historians have linked these jugs to African ritual artifacts, others to imported European figural vessels. These two face jugs came to the Smithsonian in 1922 from the estate of a wealthy collector. At the time they received little attention from curators and were viewed as examples of primitive art. In the 1960s emerging scholarship in African American history inspired new interest in face jugs and the skilled slave potters who made them. The museum has since collected many examples of pottery from Edgefield, a center of nineteenth-century stoneware manufacture that relied heavily on slave labor, including jars made by the slave artisan David Drake. (source: The Smithsonian) 9 photos in all use > button to see them in sequence.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 19:01:44 +0000
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