Catawba Master Potter Caroleen Sanders discusses and demonstrates advanced techniques in Catawba Pottery. Original recording taken on October 16, 2021.
Caroleen SandersCatawba Master potter Mohave Bryson demonstrates basic pottery techniques as traditionally practiced by the Catawba.
Mohave BrysonDr. Davis discusses the history of Catawba settlements and revealed through archaeological evidence.
Catawba Cultural Services DivisionDr. Davis take a close look at late Catawba settlement sites near Nation Ford, South Carolina.
Catawba Cultural Services DivisionDr. Steve Davis discusses the changing worlds of the Catawba int he late 18th and early 19th centuries as revealed through archaeological discoveries.
Dr. R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr.Dr. Steve Davis discusses his archaeological discoveries that reveal some of the history of the ancestral Catawba tribes in North Carolina.
Dr. R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr.Chef Dave McCluskey provides a brief overview of the importance of corn to indigenous people, and the traditional methods used for nixtamalization to improve the nutritional value of native corn. This brief talk was presented at a dinner featuring foods prepared with Catawba corn for the first time in living memory.
Catawba Cultural Services DivisionDr. Heather Lapham, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Research Labs of Archaeology, discusses the process of designing and installing museum displays at the Catawba Cultural Center combining archaeological materials from UNC, artifacts from the Catawba Nation Archives, and collaboration between Dr. Lapham's team and the Cultural Center staff.
Catawba Cultural Services DivisionIn this video, Catawba Citizen Roo George-Warren demonstrates how to use fibrous plants found in the Catawba homlands to create cordage, or rope.
Catawba Cultural Services DivisionCatawba Elder Beckee Garris tells the Catawba creation story "First Woman," and the traditional Catawba story of the Yehasuri, the "little people." She contextualizes the stories within Catawba culture and society by talking about Catawba history and traditions. Also includes discussion of a book collection of Native stories which included these tales.
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