In eight pages early American folk pottery is the focus of this historiography with comparisons and contrasts made along with folk art's future also examined. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography.
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Each new detail, new discovery becomes the foundation for the next detective, and so the story of folk art pottery traditions in various regions have begun to take form, shaping
new considerations for the practice of creating with clay. Part of the reason for this struggle for information is that, quite frankly,
there has been little interest given to either the culture, practice or art of folk art pottery. In fact, one can say that the pursuit of this study is as
prejudicial as it can get, seeming to suggest that those who lived in the rural areas of the world and the work they created were somehow of a lesser quality
than those people who lived and produced works in the city. However, a study of this remarkable culture which revolved around the family
tradition of making pottery deserves more attention. This paper offers to present the facts known thus far, and to bring together the ideas of several learned detectives. From this, then,
it is hoped that it will become clear that there is a great deal to be learned from the creation of pottery during this period in Americas history, but will
also serve to illuminate a lost way of living. In spite of al the missing history, for the last twenty-five years scholars have employed a variety of approaches toward
the study of this craft and have contributed in new and radical ways to the history of this early industry. Only in the last thirty years has this topic been
central in historical analysis and can be broadly placed into two categories: historical and ethno-archaeological. Experts have traced the written records and compiled bibliographies carefully transcribed oral histories, photographed and