A finished clay cooking pot, ready for firing, Dorbour, 1994

A potter completes decorations on a clay cooking pot (sro chͻ in Nafaanra). Another pot sits nearby, turned upside down. The lower bodies of the pots have been surface treated by rolling a maize cob (bledjukaan in Nafaanra) across the leather-dry surface of the clay jar. Shallow grooved lines have been etched over top. The clay jars are now ready to be fired. Dorbour, 1994.

Creator

• Dr. M. Dores Cruz

Subject

• Pottery making
• Handicraft

Publisher

• University of Victoria Libraries

Identifier

• 3

Keyword

• Maize cob
• Cooking pots (sro cho)
• Potting
• Dorbour
• Women's work
• Decoration
• Potting tools

Date created

• 1994

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Geographic coverage

• Dorbour

Coordinates

• 8.090342, -2.517137

Provider

• Dr. Ann B. Stahl

Genre

• 35 mm slide

Date digitized

• 2016

Technical note

• Slide scanned by Veronique Plante

Year

• 1994

Permalink

• http://iaff.library.uvic.ca/concern/iaff_works/232fa1bc-a998-4710-9517-1644cb886ce2