Pot

87-8-49

From: Sulawesi

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Object Number 87-8-49
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Sulawesi
Section Oceanian
Materials Clay
Description

Clay pot (kura tana') (= pot [made of] earth). Used for cooking and perhaps storage. Becoming rare, replaced with aluminum pots. One of several pots made at time of collector's visit by a woman named Sa'adia Yakasah. Made with stone anvil & wooden paddle. Local clay dug from hillside, dried for 1 day, soaked in water for 15 min., then mixed with river sand & molded as pot. Sun dried 1 day, then fired on wood/brush fire for about 1 hour. Red, with pattern of incised slashes on rim. Broken in shipping.

Height 19 cm
Outside Diameter 26 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Lorraine V. Aragon, 1987
Other Number 130 - Other Number

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