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LOGGER'S SHEET 

LOGGER: mary Felegy
REEL NUMBER: 2B
STAGE: Cult. Cons. Narr.
DATE: 7/3/86
PRESENTOR: Doug DeNatale
GROUP NAME: Family tradition: Southern Pottery 
REGION/STYLE: Seagrove, NC

PERFORMER(S) INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION 
Dorothy Cole Auman (potter; Seagrove, NC)
Walter S. Auman (potter; Seagrove, NC)
Mitchell Shelton (potter; Seagrove, NC)

CONTENTS

1. Intro (Denatale)  
2. Seagrove NC - good source of clay - 5 or so families settled there to make pottery. Early market was local people for practical household use. Later, tourist market arose.
3. Soda jar - soda or salt storage, sometimes quinine a stable shape. Takes up little space, lip of jar is such that a cloth could be tied over it as a lid. Milk crock was similar shape. Now these shapes are used for different purposes: flower vase, f.x.
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5. Older pieces were stoneware, then began using Albany (NY) slip - a clay liquid solution which would melt when fired and act as a glaze.
6. Jing - an old shape - usually made large for storing liquids - some were made smaller for their own pleasure/for children. A pleasant shape Also...
7. ... After civil war, government agents encouraged farmers to make whiskey out of their corn, so potters had built in market for jugs. Then whiskey became illegal, and potters looked for another market for jugs → tourists.
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9. Process: an industry - a potter would make several thousand pieces/day sometimes and sell to wholesale. Describe: a daily schedule. What do you do? Who does what?
10. Mitchell Shelton - 4-5 workers in his shop. (run by 78 and 80 year old potters) Wayman Cole turns as much as Mitchell does
11. Different chemicals are added to commercial clay: Theirs is natural clay - they may mix different types, but it is all natural
12. Quantity - works a week to make hundreds of a type of pot - a stock to last for sale over where Dorothy begins to turn, count then less than 100 at a time.
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