Author: Koverman, Jill Beute
Title: I Made This Jar... : The Life and Works of the Enslaved African-American Potter, Dave
Description: Columbia, SC, McKissick Museum, The University of South Carolina, 1998. Softcover. A matte purple softcover book with the title printed in black across the front cover and down the spine. Pages: (11), 8-101. Illustrated with a majority of black-and-white images, as well as some color. Contents are as follows: Searching for messages in clay: what do we really know about Dave? / Jill Beute Koverman -- Edgefield, South Carolina: home to Dave the Potter / Orville Vernon Burton -- Dave the Potter and the origins of African-American poetry / James A. Miller -- Talking jars: Dave and larger traditions of pot-poetry / John A. Burriston -- Archaeological findings / Joe Holcombe and Dr. Fred E. Holcombe -- Verses on vessels made by Dave / Jill Beute Koverman. VG-: The book is warped. However, the binding remains strong and the pages are clean.

Keywords: American Decorative Arts ; Dave the Potter ; ; Ceramics - American


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