Potters gathering clay at clay pits, near 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
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content: Ann O'Hear Collection / Series 2: Pottery Technology in Ilorin
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Slides (photographs) (color, 35mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1988
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2016-004, Item EEPA 2016-004-0035
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Clay pits just outside the city of Ilorin, and close to Ebu Dada, the biggest pottery production center. Potters are seen gathering clay, to which they will add a decomposed quartz-schist (called wuyan by the potters), which is dug nearby, or, alternatively, sand. This coarse-textured mixture has the best consistency for the molding and coiling methods that are used by Ilorin potters.