Molding a clay jar, Bondakile, 1982

A standing potter molds the body of a clay jar using a draw-and-drag (direct pull) technique. Beginning with a lump of moist clay, she has drawn the clay upward and outward with her hands. Here she begins to shape the form of the jar's neck and outward-flaring rim. As she works, she moves backwards around the stump that supports the palette (kpankpa in Nafaanra) on which the jar is being formed. Bondakile, October, 1982.

Creator

• Dr. Ann B. Stahl

Subject

• Handicraft
• Pottery
• Pottery making

Publisher

• University of Victoria Libraries

Identifier

• 4

Keyword

• Potting
• Women's work
• Forming
• Jars

Date created

• 1982-10

Relation

•  http://iaff.library.uvic.ca/concern/iaff_works/fa825465-3cc9-48ab-8178-c8b65176aefc
•  http://iaff.library.uvic.ca/concern/iaff_works/896a32cc-8b0f-46f6-8634-9c5cb950ab11
•  http://iaff.library.uvic.ca/concern/iaff_works/d6fb25e6-5144-4439-8163-24a96a72dabb
•  http://iaff.library.uvic.ca/concern/iaff_works/29f27af9-287d-4cbb-8998-4a2a12ee3a02
•  http://iaff.library.uvic.ca/concern/iaff_works/dc8c6828-a532-4ad1-90b7-b98701346e02
•  http://iaff.library.uvic.ca/concern/iaff_works/8c2ae9ef-7067-432a-82de-0368221ea295
•  http://iaff.library.uvic.ca/concern/iaff_works/9992b1ec-1b28-437a-9cc7-592fee2c2b6d
•  http://iaff.library.uvic.ca/concern/iaff_works/7258a785-57e8-4f46-9c7d-bd9b4fb5bf4e
•  http://iaff.library.uvic.ca/concern/iaff_works/f007621d-0f7c-4852-98e2-fa656027de95

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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