On the way to collect the clay, the potters stop at the houses of their comadres and exchange small words: "Good morning, comadre, how are you?"

https://doi.org/10.25420/britishmuseum.27941802

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The women potters leave the village where they live and enter the Cerrado forest towards the actual clay collection site.<p></p>

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

A01

Rights owner

Pequi do Cerrado Institute

Title alt

No trajeto da coleta do barro as oleiras param nas casas de comadres e trocam pequenas palavras: "Bom dia cumadre, bão?".

Cultural group

Oleiras do Candeal

Participants

Nilda Muniz Farias, Maria Benita Pinheiro, Jesuita Lopes de Oliveira, Marina Pinheiro Lisboa, Luciano Dayrell

Place

Cônego Marinho, North of Minas Gerais

Item/object

Paths within the territory and identification of natural resources

Cultural context/event

Resource collection

Social group setting

Community

Location

Forest

Temporality

20 min walking

Intent

Reach the collection site

Date of creation

2023-03-22

Unique ID

2022SG02-A01-0009