Carolina Quotes
After I got married, I decided to hunt that clay right above where I lived. I made some small bowls and I told my husband, I said, “Let me try to burn them. Just make a hole right there in the yard.” We just piled wood in there and burned my pottery. And that came out pretty good. And I just kept on playing with that wood, off and on.
Amanda Swimmer Carolinian
Source
Interview in the North Carolina Folklore Journal 44 (1997); quoted in M. Anna Fariello, Cherokee Pottery: From the Hands of Our Elders (2011), Cherokee Traditions, Hunter Library, Western Carolina University
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- Amanda Swimmer, North Carolina Folklore Journal 44
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- 1997
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“After I got married, I decided to hunt that clay right above…” Amanda Swimmer. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-01BFEAC176. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/01bfeac176
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