Color terms and consonant symbolism

[A.W. Tüting]

Blair, thanks a lot. Your comment is most valuable to judge this issue 
:)

Alfred

Am 19.07.2006 um 18:41 schrieb BARudes at aol.com:

>  Pottery making never died out among the Catawbas. It was the one 
> thing that served to "define" Catawba culture from prehistoric times 
> up to the present. The tradition is very old (dating to the Late 
> Archaic Period) and indigenous to the Carolinas. During the 19th and 
> early centuries is was still widely made and sold as a tourist item. 
> The tradition died back (but not out) in the middle of the twentieth 
> century with dispersal of the Catawbas and the loss of federal 
> recognition. In 1965, one Catawba woman wrote that "there is no one 
> here (on the reservation) now that speaks or would understand the 
> Catawba language. Only a few of the older women make the pottery any 
> more. I still make it." (Doris Wheelock Blue, quoted in Douglas Summer 
> Brown, The Catawba Indians: The People of the River, USC Press, 1966, 
> p. 365). Brown goes on to comment that "is pottery, the single, most 
> characteristic Catawba artifact, the last link with these ancient 
> people and their ancient ways?" (p. 365). Pottery making underwent a 
> resurrgence in the late twentieth century and there are now a fair 
> number of master potters among the Catawba.
>
>  As the anthropologist Frank Speck documented, the Catawba pottery 
> tradition was brought to the Cherokee in the mid-19th century when a 
> number of Catawbas married Cherokees and moved to Cherokee land. Thus, 
> it is unlikely that the use of the Cherokee word for 'white' in 
> reference to pottery dates any earlier than the mid-19th century. I 
> should also not that there are no terms related to pottery making in 
> Catawba that bear any resemblence to Cherokee uneka 'white' or the 
> Chinese term.
>
>  Blair
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