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Steps in Shaping a Pot, Part 2 | Digital Traditions - Episode 2

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Nora Harris Campbell builds up the sides of the pot with "coils" and uses the lid of a tin can to scrape the inside of the pot smooth - blending the individual coils together. Footage from Folklife Resource Center documentation in the late 1980s. Filmed in Campbell's home.

 

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Nola Harris Campbell finishes the outside of the pot by rubbing it with a corn cob. This "blends" the coils together and the pot is ready to cure or dry. Harris also demonstrates "scraping" a dried...