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Frank Ettawageshik leads an Odawa pottery residency at Beaver Island Community School, 1993

Also Frank Ettawageshik Beaver Island pottery class 1993

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TypeEvent
Dates1993-05-03 – 1993-05-07
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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1993-05-03 – 1993-05-07
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Summary

Odawa potter and craftsman Frank Ettawageshik spent May 3–7, 1993, at Beaver Island Community School, teaching hand-built and wheel pottery and open-pit firing traditions. The report says 46 elementary students and 18 high-school students participated.

Evidence limits

The newspaper gives the reported teaching account and participant totals, not a course register, curriculum archive, or independent biographical record.

Sources

  1. Reports Ettawageshik’s teaching of ancestral Odawa pottery techniques, work with 46 elementary and 18 high-school students, planned Museum Week participation, and Michigan Council for the Arts funding. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1993-05_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held eleven-page issue scan confirms the pottery-residency report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1993-05_Beaver-Beacon

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Frank Ettawageshik leads an Odawa pottery residency at Beaver Island Community School, 1993”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-frank-ettawageshik-pottery-residency-1993/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 1993, “School & Student News.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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