Turtle Pottery

Season 5 • Episode 10

Chickasaw Culture Keepers

"As I'm working on pots, I think about my ancestors," says Chickasaw potter Marcella Yepa. "There's a connection. It really feels like they are there to help me with my pots." Yepa's passion for pottery began at a young age when she helped her grandmother sand and paint her pots. "She taught me a lot about pottery," says Yepa, who began making her own pots at age 19. Now 30 years later, Yepa continues her passion, or as she puts it, "I just love working with clay." Just as her grandmother passed a love for pottery onto her, Yepa hopes to keep the family tradition alive. "I would like to pass my pottery making to my daughter and my granddaughters," says Yepa. "I teach them when they visit me."

EPISODES

3m 30s

Turtle Pottery

EPISODES

Pottery

Stickball Sticks

Beading

Regalia

Metalsmithing

Shell Carving

Weaving

Horticulture

Baskets

Traditional Foods

Quilting

Flutes

Beaded Collars

Drum Making

Storytelling

Bow Making

Brent Greenwood Art

Beaded Jewelry

Flint Knapping

Stomp Dancing

Beadwork

Turkey Calls

Traditional Stories: How Day and Night Were Divided

Woodturning

Bead Artisan

Textile Art

Quilt Making

Jewelry

The Legacy of Bow Making

Bead Artistry

Painting

Woven Mats

Metalworking

Photography

Pashofa

Deer Toe Shakers

Stickball Sticks

Shell Carving

Medicine Bags

Natural Dyes

Twinning

Bladesmithing

Fish Nets

Porcupine Quillwork

Pottery Burnishing

Shell Carving

Duck Decoys

Traditional Arrows

Fine Gourd Art

Traditional Flutes

Turtle Pottery

Turtle Shell Shakers

Pucker Toe Moccasins

Chunkey

Tattoos and War Paint

Leggings and Breechcloths