Burnishing a red-slipped clay pot, Dorbour, 1994

Afua 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 base of the pot is left unslipped. Dorbour, 1994.

Creator

• Dr. M. Dores Cruz

Subject

• Pottery making
• Handicraft

Publisher

• University of Victoria Libraries

Identifier

• 12

Keyword

• Potting
• Dorbour
• Women's work
• Burnishing
• Slipping
• 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/da75a969-8c31-4bd3-a455-39f79d1d3c37