Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Woman constructing clay storage pot, removing the base after the batt (patty) has been beaten out over the mold, Ebu Dada pottery center, Ilorin
1980
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.
Process of making a large red storage pot. When the batt (patty) has been beaten out over the mold, the young potter removes the base carefully. It is then left to dry until sufficiently hardened.
- Collection
- Ann O'Hear Collection
- Archival grouping
- Ann O'Hear Collection / Series 2: Pottery Technology in Ilorin
- Catalog date
- 1980
- 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
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: EEPA.2016-004, Item EEPA 2016-004-0019
Collection: Ann O'Hear Collection
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