Clay grinding bowls drying, Bondakile, 1982

Unfinished clay grinding bowls dry on the palettes (kpankpa in Nafaanra) on which they were formed. After they have dried to a leather-hard state, the potter will remove them from their palettes and score their interiors. The scoring creates a grinding surface used to process vegetables which are added to soups. These bowls may also serve as men's eating bowls (pԑԑ in Nafaanra). Immediately behind the drying bowls is a hearth, swept clean of ashes. Pottery jars can be seen drying in background, right. A chicken forages nearby. Bondakile, October, 1982.

Creator

• Dr. Ann B. Stahl

Subject

• Pottery making
• Chickens
• Pottery
• Hearths
• Handicraft

Publisher

• University of Victoria Libraries

Identifier

• 11

Keyword

• Potting
• Grinding bowls
• Drying

Date created

• 1982-10

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Geographic coverage

• Bondakile

Coordinates

• 7.986031, -2.546331

Provider

• Dr. Ann B. Stahl

Genre

• 35 mm slide

Date digitized

• 2016

Technical note

• Slide scanned by Veronique Plante

Year

• 1982

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