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    Posted 9 years ago

    melaniej
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    9" Tall
    Mattaponi Pottery
    Margaret "Star Eyes" Allmond
    Signed on bottom; MA followed by a Star (5PT) then a set of eyes then the words Matta Ind Res.
    Thank you "White Feather"

    Info;
    http://virginiaindians.pwnet.org/today/mattaponi.php

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    Comments

    1. melaniej melaniej, 9 years ago
      CindiB thank you...
    2. racer4four racer4four, 9 years ago
      I really love that burnished finish...almost looks metallic!
    3. melaniej melaniej, 9 years ago
      Decided to add a picture of the inside...
    4. melaniej melaniej, 9 years ago
      Update: Solved
      Mattaponi Pottery
      Thank you "White Feather" for the information on this piece of pottery and all the information you have provided.

      Potter-Margaret "Star Eyes" Allmond she married Alfred Allmond

      Birth Name- Margaret Adams
      Parents:
      Jasper Louis Adams 1 was born in 1879. He married Molly Wade Holmes.
      Molly Wade Holmes was born in 1881. She married Jasper Louis Adams.

      We are planning a trip to go visit the reservation very soon . It's only about an hour or so from us. I'm so excited!

      http://www.virginiawind.com/virginia_travel/indian.asp
    5. melaniej melaniej, 9 years ago
      Sad to say "Star Eyes" passed away 9/2014.
    6. melaniej melaniej, 9 years ago
      online info;
      A little history on her mother and father.....

      Mollie Holmes Adams
      (1881-1973)
      KING WILLIAM COUNTY
      UPPER MATTAPONI LEADER

      Mollie Holmes Adams helped preserve the Upper Mattaponi heritage by passing on the almost-lost art of feather weaving and recording her herbal remedies.

      Mollie Wade Holmes Adams (October 8, 1881–December 14, 1973) grew up in King William County in the Adamstown (later the Upper Mattaponi) Indian community. She faced the same hardships as her neighbors, including poverty, difficulty in attaining education, and the racism of outsiders. In 1900 she married Jasper Lewis Adams, who served as chief of the Upper Mattaponi from 1923 to 1973. Mollie Adams joined her husband as a leader of the tribe as he facilitated the purchase and construction of the Sharon Indian School in 1919 and the Indian View Baptist Church in 1942.

      Raising her twelve children, Adams faced the bigotry of Walter A. Plecker's management of the Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics. Plecker systematically worked to reclassify all Virginia Indians as "negro" or "colored" and therefore relegate them to the same racist laws to which African Americans were subject. In a counter move to Plecker's claims against the Indians, several white men signed a statement certifying Adams's Indian ancestry.

      Turkey feather cape made by Mollie Holmes Adams. Image courtesy of Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation.
      Despite this adversity, Adams was a tribal elder and passed on the almost-lost skill of feather weaving. She aided anthropologists by allowing her picture to be published in one study and by explaining her herbal remedies to researchers. Adams built a strong base for the modern Upper Mattaponi through her church and tribal activism. Her son Andrew Washington Adams was chief of the Upper Mattaponi from 1974 to 1985, and her grandson, Kenneth Adams, is the current chief.

      Nominated by Arlene Milner, Keysville

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