Pottery making brings old traditions back to life at Nash Harbor
On a nice windy day in Nash Harbor, the Summer Science Field Camp class is making pottery out of local resources. As the students make the pottery they tested all the different types of land, water and other resources to find many different ways to keep the clay together and uncracks. The only challenge after all they’re hard work is to wait till it’s dry enough to be baked in a fire and hopefully not crack or explode. The pottery is made from a variety of local resources such as clay found along the beach, cut up grass, muskox hair and bird feathers to temper the clay to prevent the pottery from expanding or contracting during the bake in the fire. We hope that these old traditions could still be alive and practiced to this day.
Summer Science Student,
~Optimistic Oscar~
July 1st, 2006 20:40
hey bro! i miss u so much! i cant wait to see u… maybe ill get to meet u at the airport… tell me what day and what time ur coming in, and i will go get u! grr…. i really wish u were home cuz i like miss u so much! and trish wants to see u… shes back in town to.. she says for the summer, but idk. well, miss u lots. tell everyone i said hi…. ttyl.
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