Small black soup pot, showing burnished designs on the inside, 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 Digital image (color)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2015
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2016-004, Item EEPA 2016-004-0029
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Digital images
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Pot was purchased in Ilorin, circa 1989. Burnished designs have been rubbed into the pot before firing, and it has gone through a thorough carbonization and locust-bean pod liquor treatment, producing the black color. In the 1980s, it appeared that a complete carbonization/locust-bean-pod liquor treatment was routinely used only for black cooking pots, large and small, which need to be particularly strong and seepage proof.