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Pottery-making among the Banea people: ntse koḥa

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Pottery making among the Banea: mixing the clay, modelling the vessel out of a clay lump, smoothing, rubbing the pot with a talc pebble (mamuqa) before firing, preparing a bonfire, firing, preparing and spreading coating substance on the vessel surface after firing, and removing the pot from the fire

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

X01

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Cultural group

Banea

Participants

Nedifa Anur Habash

Country

Ethiopia

Place

Banjercha, Benishangul-Gumuz

Item/object

Ntse koḥa

Materials

Clay, Straw, Stone-talc

Cultural context/event

Trade

Social group setting

Individual producer

Location

Compound

Date of creation

2020-01-28

Unique ID

2019LG07-X01-0756

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