Young potter, using an old, inverted pot as a mold, beats out batt to make the base for a pot, Ebu Dada pottery center, Ilorin
name: label: Photographer
content: O'Hear, Ann
label: Collection Photographer
content: O'Hear, Ann
place: label: Place
content: Nigeria
topic: label: Topic
content: Pottery
creator: label: Photographer
content: O'Hear, Ann
setName: label: See more items in
content: Ann O'Hear Collection
label: See more items in
content: Ann O'Hear Collection / Series 2: Pottery Technology in Ilorin
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Slides (photographs) (color, 35mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1980
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2016-004, Item EEPA 2016-004-0018
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Process of making a large red storage pot.  A ball of prepared clay mix has been beaten or trodden out into a "batt," or patty.  Here, a young potter, using an old, inverted pot as a mold, beats out the batt to make the base for a pot.