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The faces are almost all ugly. Their three or four uneven white teeth protrude from swollen lips in drippy, dark faces. Some have lumpy eyebrows and waggly ears. They appear to gasp or cross their eyes.

The ugly and hilarious face jugs, an old Southern pottery tradition, were everywhere Sunday at the Georgia Jug Festival in Knoxville. Shelby West, a Knoxville native who now lives in Rome, said his best model is himself.


"I stare in the mirror and make faces," he said.


West demonstrated how to make large pitchers and other pottery from Lizella's famous clay, using historic techniques perfected at the turn of the last century in Crawford County and in Jugtown on the border between Upson and Pike counties.



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