Cooking & Eating Utensils
All of this doesn't go with me to every event. I may
travel light, only carrying a bowl or mug and spoon, possibly a pot to boil
water in. If I'm going to a "stationary camp" event, I'll bring
more stuff along, and will double up on some things if camping with the boys or
other people.
Three brass kettles. Commercially available from several sutlers;
the large one has been modified to have more correct "dog ear" bail ears and
shortened by Jim Kimpell of High Horse Traders.. Look for a kettle that is wider
than it is tall.
Iron kettle of type traded to native people; this is a
reproduction with a more correct bail (handle) added.
Tennessee sandstone cooking rock used for cornbread or frying.
I can't get it to show up in a picture, but the rock has a slightly concave
surface worked into it to keep oil or food on it. You can see that some
oil has soaked into the sandstone.
Various eating utensils made of wood. Large spoon is a sofkee spoon, replica of one in collection at
Smithsonian, documented with photographs by Dave Mott. (see
page in Documentation section on sofkee spoons). Counterclockwise from
top right: trencher made from white pine, sofkee spoon, bowl, small drinking
cup, spoons made from pear wood, walnut, and sycamore. At bottom is a silver
spoon. All items except sofkee and silver spoons maed by me.
Pottery items - from left: cazuela style bowl, beaker, cook
pot, beakers, small cook pot. All but smallest beaker (cup) made by Anna
Fleming of Akem Pottery, McCalla, AL. She specializes in hand-built and wheel
thrown pit fired, smoke colored pottery. All these items have an interior
glaze so that I can use them for food without concern about safety, cross
contamination, etc. The small cup is one of my attempts at pottery.
A Lamar Incised reproduction cazuela style bowl from Rick
Bowman.
Small gourd flask. Lined and coated with beeswax for
waterproofing. Holds about 3/4 pint. Though probably not commonly
used, beeswax (and honey) was known to
the natives in GA as early as 1738. During the campaign against St.
Augustine, Oglethorpe's Yamacraw and Creek scouts brought back honeycomb to eat.
My drinking noggin. Not particularly documentable to the
SE.
References:
Speck, Frank G. Gourds of the southeastern Indians; a
prolegomenon on the Lagenaria gourd in the culture of the southeastern Indians.
Boston, Mass., The New England Gourd Society, c1941.
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