United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027Stansberry, David1730/1770This is a photograph of mid-18th century Kaolin smoking pipes recovered from Chota. The Overhill Cherokees traded actively with the lower Cherokees of Georgia and South Carolina. Chota was recognized by Europeans as well as other Indians for its powerful economic influence and was regarded as the capital of the Cherokee nation. The University of Tennessee conducted excavations of Chota from 1969-1974 in anticipation of the flooding of the Lower Little Tennessee River by the Tellico Dam Reservoir. The university worked under contract with the National Park Service and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Principal investigator, Alfred K. Guthe. Field Directors, J. Worth Greene, Duane H. King, and Gerald F. Schroedl.Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2000, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.text/htmlimage/jpegmm031engPhotograph held by the Frank H. McClung Museum, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, photograph mm031.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: AT&T DjVu browser plug-in needed to view images of documents.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Cherokee IndiansCherokee artAntiquitiesArtSalvage archaeologyHistoric sitesTobacco pipesPipe, Clay[Photograph of mid-18th century kaolin smoking pipes recovered at Chota] / [by David Stansberry]StillImage