Medicine pot being fired and treated with a liquor made from locust-bean pods
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: 1982
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2016-004, Item EEPA 2016-004-0027
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A medicine pot being fired is treated with a liquor made from locust-bean pods, which gives it a bronze/brown color. This helps to seal the pot (which is to be used to store liquid medicines) and increase its strength. The locust-bean pods from which the liquor is made can be seen in the lower right of the picture.