- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Photograph of a carved steatite (soapstone) pipe excavated at the former site of the mid-18th century Cherokee town of Chota, taken in 1969] / [by George Fielder]
- Creator:
- Fielder, George
- Publisher:
- Photograph held by the Frank H. McClung Museum, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, photograph mm039.
- Date of Original:
- 1969
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Antiquities
Salvage archaeology
Soapstone carving
Tobacco pipes
Historic sites - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Chota Site, 35.517491, -86.580447
- Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is a photograph of a mid-18th century Cherokee carved steatite (soapstone) pipe that was excavated at the site of Chota in 1969. Chota was recognized by Native Americans and European settlers as a powerful social and economic influence and was regarded as the capital of the Cherokee nation. Excavations of Chota and other Overhill villages were conducted by the University of Tennessee as part of the Tellico Archaeological Project in anticipation of the flooding of the lower Little Tennessee River by the Tellico Dam Reservoir. The excavations were conducted under contract with the National Park Service and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Principal investigator, Alfred K. Guthe. Field Director, J. Worth Greene.
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. - Local Identifier:
- mm039
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_mm039
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_mm039#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_mm039/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Frank H. McClung Museum, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 page/leaf
- Holding Institution:
- Frank H. McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture
- Rights:
-
