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Title: The art treasures of Washington : an account of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and of the National Gallery and Museum, with descriptions and criticisms of their contents; including, also, an account of the works of art in the Capitol, and in the Library of Congress, and of the most important statuary in the city
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Henderson, Helen Weston, 1874-
Subjects: Art museums Art Art
Publisher: Boston : L. C. Page & Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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lly, producingvases and other articles quite equal in many respectsto the ancient product. The study of the present practices is highly in-structive, and the archaeologist may begin his studyol the ancient pottery in America with a prettydefinite knowledge of the technical and functional statu- of the art. as well as a clear conception ofthe manner in which it embodies the symbolic andthetic notions i>f a people. lEarthenware relic- arc very generally distributedWherever pottery making tribesIt, wan camped, sought water, colic !. conducted ceremonies, or buried dead, arefound deposits of this character. The riches! field- are along great water ways;the Ohio, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Red Riverally possess almost inexhaustible supplies ancient ware. A broad region including the COn- fluence of the great streams of the Mississippi tem. the Missouri, the Ohio, the Tennessee, theCumberland, and the Arkansas, seems to be the 1 Aboriginal Pottery of tl n United States, by W. H. Holmes.
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DIANA By Abbott I (anderson Th national Ansenm: cbinqui potters ~7)~ richest of all Yel there are less extended fltfeasin other sections almost equally rich, It is to mortuary usage that we owe the preser-vation of so many perfect examples of fragile uten-sils in clay. Pottery IS practically imperishable,so that it is often the chief record that a depai people leave behind, and therefore, next to actual >\-(\> and inscriptions, is probably the most val-uable, as well as often the only kind of remains left by a race. iropean pottery has long held the attention of the archaeologist; hut it is only in recent years that •;ra ures of the Western Continent have been led worthy of consideration. The real value an investigation of the field of the American Indian for information concerning the distribution of the trihes; for its bearing upon the history of ceramic art; and its general story of primitive md invention was obscured by the students natural preference for the work of peopl

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