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Photo: Southern Highland Craft Guild

Photo: Southern Highland Craft Guild

Louise Maney

Bear Paw Ashtray

USA, 1900

Southern Highland Craft Guild Collection

Date acquired:

Materials:

Earthenware

Form - Functional: N/A

Form - Sculptural: N/A

Method:

Hand-Built

Surface Technique: N/A

Kiln Type: N/A

Glazes: N/A

Louise Maney | 1932 – Present

Louise Maney is known for pieces created with her husband John Henry Maney. John Henry threw the pots. Louise did the final shaping and decorating using traditional tools: deer bone knives for incising or carving and stones for polishing; and peach pits, corn cobs, and pattern carved wooden paddles for applying designs. Sharp sticks were used to incise traditional Cherokee weaving and basketry patterns.

Maney, a daughter of Matriarch Charlotte Welch Bigmeat (1887–1959). Charlotte Welch Bigmeat’s signature form is the Indian head pot. Her lasting influence on the quality Cherokee pottery was fixed by her 5 daughters who carried on her clay traditions : Tinie Bigmeat Thompson (1913-1999), Ethel Bigmeat Queen (1916-1942), Elizabeth Bigmeat Jackson (1919-2008), Mabel Bigmeat Swimmer (1925-1991), and Louise Bigmeat Maney (1932-2001).”1 Charlotte and husband, Robert Bigmeat, raised their 5 daughters and son in Wrights Creek in the Painttown section of the Qualla Boundary.2

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1900

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