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Photographer: Native Americans on the Georgia Coast Marker
Caption: Native American Pottery
Additional Description: Pottery first appeared in Georgia around 1,500 B.C. Forms of this pottery consisted mainly of bowls and conical jars (above). Vessels were decorated by stamping, incising and impressing the wet clay before firing. The above types represent pottery decorations associated with the Woodland and Mississippian time periods in Chatham County .

The Green Corn
As Native Americans became more sedentary, they increasingly relied on the cultivation of wild vegetables such as beans, pumpkins, sunflowers and tabacco. Part of this process was the Green Corn Festival in which Native Americans gave thanks for the harvest through games, fasting and other rites.

Submitted: May 26, 2009, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p64792
File Size: 0.111 Megabytes

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