BASKETS, POTTERY, PATTERNS OF THE TALLIGEWI
Another authority, W.H. Holmes said that the art of the Talligewi and Cherokee said that pottery may have been made like that of Caribbean tribes by using primitive wooden paddles with designs on them and stamped their pottery while still wet. A couple designs, one of the ‘four directions’ and the design of ‘unity’ were exact to that of the Mayan and Caribbean tribes.
The late Frank G. Speck, for one theorized to the contrary that the Talligewi originated in the Orinoco and Amazon River basins of South America.
He stated that he found that baskets woven in chain and diagonal patters by the Talligewi and South American tribes were made the same and with the same material
Another authority, W.H. Holmes said that the art of the Talligewi and Cherokee said that pottery may have been made like that of Caribbean tribes by using primitive wooden paddles with designs on them and stamped their pottery while still wet. A couple designs, one of the ‘four directions’ and the design of ‘unity’ were exact to that of the Mayan and Caribbean tribes.
The late Frank G. Speck, for one theorized to the contrary that the Talligewi originated in the Orinoco and Amazon River basins of South America.
He stated that he found that baskets woven in chain and diagonal patters by the Talligewi and South American tribes were made the same and with the same material