That is the famous mound at the junction of Georgia Highways 17 and 75, just 2 miles from the Folk Pottery Museum. The bowl was housed in New York and Washington with other Smithsonian collections. The bowl is now on special loan for display at the new Folk Pottery Museum.

The Nacoochee mound site dates from the 1400s, late in the mound-building culture of the Mississipians, making the bowl more than 600 years old. The upper portion of the design is incised, while the lower design pattern was pressed into wet clay with a carved wooden paddle.

"This is an opportunity for our Museum to observe its special connection with the Smithsonian Institution," declared the Folk Pottery Museum Director. "The video presentation in our Museum includes demonstrations filmed by the Smithsonian Institution in the 1960s, where members of the Meaders family of northeast Georgia show how they have been producing pottery since the late 1800s and passing these traditions down to their descendants."

The SNCA maintains Sautee Nacoochee Center, a thriving cultural and community center housed in a restored rural schoolhouse, offering a Folk Pottery Museum, Theatre, Gallery, Art Studio, History Museum, Heritage Site, Nature Preserve, Environmental Studies Room, and Conference Facilities. The Association has established Sautee Nacoochee as an official Historic District and one of "The 100 Best Small Arts Towns in America."