Burnishing a red-slipped clay pot, Dorbour, 1994
PublicAfua Donkor, a Nafana potter burnishes a dried but as-yet unfired clay pot on which she has applied a red slip (chuma in Nafaanra). She uses a strand of Baobab tree seeds (wasawasa in Nafaanra) to rub the slip, helping the color to adhere to the pot's surface and giving it a sheen. The slip is a thin solution made by mixing a red soil found on the Brawhani road with water. Some is contained in a small can sitting on the ground (left). Finished, unfired pots sit in the room behind the potter. Dorbour, 1994.
- 8.090342, -2.517137
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- 35 mm slide
- 2016
- Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
- 1994
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