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SHELL-TEMPERED POTTERY [1 record]

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Record 1 2011-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ceramics (Industries)
  • Applied Arts
  • Pottery
  • Archaeology
CONT

Shell-tempered pottery. The Fort Shantok Focus pottery is shell-tempered with many Iroquoian features, such as collars with basal nodes, high castellations with vertical lugs at their apexes, and appliquéed ridges around the rims.

OBS

The clay used was mixed with various tempering ingredients, such as sand or pulverized stone, potsherds, and shells; ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Céramique (Industries)
  • Arts appliqués
  • Poteries
  • Archéologie
OBS

argilo : Mot qualifiant les combinaisons dans lesquelles l'argile entre en proportion importante.

OBS

conchylien : Qui contient des coquilles.

OBS

poterie dégraissée à la poudre de coquillage : Proposition de M. Gauvin. Auteur : L.G. 10-2-81.

Spanish

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