Choctaw Pottery Making

Authors

• Chucalissa Museum

Abstract

This video shows and narrates the process of pottery making that is present in most indigenous tribes. It shows a Choctaw man at Chucalissa in 1960 making a jar from start to finish, beginning with digging for the clay in a riverbank and ending with dipping he fired product in lard to glaze it. The method he uses, which was very popular among the residence of Chucalissa, is called coiling.

Recommended Citation

Museum, Chucalissa, "Choctaw Pottery Making" (1960). Videos. 3.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/chnash-museum-chucalissa-series2/3