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Medicine pot being fired and treated with a liquor made from locust-bean pods
1982
Nigeria
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.
A medicine pot being fired is treated with a liquor made from locust-bean pods, which gives it a bronze/brown color. This helps to seal the pot (which is to be used to store liquid medicines) and increase its strength. The locust-bean pods from which the liquor is made can be seen in the lower right of the picture.
- Collection
- Ann O'Hear Collection
- Archival grouping
- Ann O'Hear Collection / Series 2: Pottery Technology in Ilorin
- Catalog date
- 1982
- Recorded places
- Nigeria
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- O'Hear, Ann
- Recorded subjects
- Pottery
- Format and extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (color, 35mm)
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Sources & collection details
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art — original record ↗
Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: EEPA.2016-004, Item EEPA 2016-004-0027
Collection: Ann O'Hear Collection
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