Small firing site, used to fire medicine pots, Ilorin

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.

Firing is carried out by potters working in larger (as in Ebu Dada) or smaller groups, with pots piled into open "clamps." The firing is low-temperature, and firing times in the second half of the twentieth century were particularly short. The firing is economical and efficient, and the resulting pots can be transported over long distances without excessive breakages and used for cooking over an open fire.

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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