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Preparing the firing pit

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posted on 2025-05-22, 11:17 authored by Abidemi Babatunde Babalola
The demonstration of firing the moulded powdered glass during glass bead making by Oladipo Agbogunleri in Ile-Ife. It spanned from placing the moulded beads on a pan filled with sieved sand to setting of fire in a dugged pit.

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Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

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Abidemi Babatunde Babalola

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Iseto iho ina

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Ifihan bi a sen se akun elebu ti a ti mo nigba ti a ban se akun lati odo Oladipo ni Ile Ife. O bere lati fi fi gilasi ti a mo si ori iyepe ti a ti jo. Leyin iyen won ma ko ina si inu koto ti won gbe

Cultural group

Yoruba

Participants

Oladipo Agbogunleri, Abidemi Babatunde Babalola, Omokolade Omigbule, Ayobami Samuel Diya

Country

Nigeria

Place

Ile-Ife, South west region

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Location

Home

Date of creation

2021-12-05

Unique ID

2019LG01-0034

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