Pot

• Title Pot
• Category Ceramic
• Medium Terra cotta
• Dimensions 15.5"h x 14"w x 14"d
• Notes The Igbo pot was made in local villages by women potters. These pots are fastened by hand without a potter’s wheel, as the gritty local clay cannot be worked on a wheel. The pots are sun dried and fired over an open fire of wood, grass, and leaves. The low temperature of the fire makes the pottery weak and fragile, but better at conducting heat. Presumably, this pot could have been used for cooking or storing hot water. The red color comes from laterite soil, and the design is created through a maize cob pressed into the clay to make indentations. In the 1960’s presumably when this pot was made, pottery was having a tough time competing against enamelware, however the Biafra-Nigeria war changed this, and the pottery industry began to boom.* The number of producers went up, as the demand and prices of pottery began to increase drastically. *Gloria Chuku, “Women in the Economy of Igboland, 1900 to 1970: A Survey.” (African Economic History, no. 23, 1995), 37-50.
• Artist Igbo People Nigerian
• Credit Clyde and Annie Matters Collection
• Location Library Art Storage J3
• Accession Number 1994.0014
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