Small firing site, used to fire medicine pots, 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
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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: 1982
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2016-004, Item EEPA 2016-004-0026
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Firing is carried out by potters working in larger (as in Ebu Dada) or smaller groups, with pots piled into open "clamps." The firing is low-temperature, and firing times in the second half of the twentieth century were particularly short. The firing is economical and efficient, and the resulting pots can be transported over long distances without excessive breakages and used for cooking over an open fire.