Stylized stoneware vessels depicting a human face, with white clay inserted for eyes and teeth. Manufactured by African Americans in South Carolina, and possibly Alabama and northern Florida during the nineteenth century.
AAT
3000262626
Afro-South Carolinian face vessel
Afro-South Carolinian face vessels
face vessel, Afro-South Carolinian
face vessels, Afro-South Carolinian
grotesque jug
grotesque jugs
jug, grotesque
jugs, grotesque
plantation pottery
pot, slave
pot, voodoo
pots, slave
pots, voodoo
pottery, plantation
slave pot
slave pots
vessel, face
vessels, face
voodoo pot
voodoo pots
13yrs ago
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