In his face jugs, McDowell also honors Dave Drake, an enslaved person from Edgefield who made pottery in the mid-1800s. Though Drake was not known to make face jugs, he was extremely skilled and ...

• While no one knows exactly why face jugs were made, historians surmise they were a synthesis of several religious beliefs from regions that Africans passed through along the Middle Passage ...

Jim McDowell, who calls himself ‘the Black Potter’ – and features in the Wallpaper* USA 300 – has spent much of his 35-year-long career making face jugs, a form introduced by enslaved people of ...

This distinctive type of ceramic face vessel first appeared in the American South in the mid-1800s. Jugs such as these are attributed to a small number of black slaves working as potters in the ...

A ceramic jug found in Germantown, PA turns out to be an example of a significant 19th century protective relic and piece of art — a face jug — created by African American slaves and freedmen ...

His most expensive and popular items became the grotesque face jugs — with the teeth made of fragments of broken plates. Some face jugs are two-sided and, rarely, four-sided.

Michael Reid [email protected] Feb 19, 2024 Feb 19, 2024 Chopticon High School students beware: One of you is having your facial features studied very closely. Chopticon High School teacher Terry ...

After they have watched the History Detectives episode, “Face Jug”, tell students that they are going to be investigating the face jug, a type of 19th century pottery created by African ...