Pottery: The Shawnee Tribe Pottery Potter

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The Shawnee tribe made pottery this is one of the pottery they made they are really good at pottery.The Shawnee tribe loved to do pottery.The pottery that they made has been going on for thousand of years.The Shawnee tribe used pottery for cooking baking. They would use clay to make the pottery.

This a Museum that has Shawnee art in it.The museum is in Oklahoma. This museum has lot of art from the Shawnee tribe. These artifacts have been old for 4,500 years. This museum has a bunch of facts about the shawnee tribe . If you ever go here you would learn about the Shawnee tribe.

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