A top view of a beer pot LUKUDU, sits on the ground in Deborah (informant's) compound. LUKUDU pots are also used as water pots. Patti Langton [16/03/2009]

Collection type: Photograph
Description: A top view of a beer pot LUKUDU, sits on the ground in Deborah (informant's) compound. LUKUDU pots are also used as water pots. Patti Langton [16/03/2009]
Geographical reference: South Sudan
Africa > Eastern Africa > South Sudan; Eastern Equatoria; Moru Misa; Lui village
Cultural groups: Moru
Person: Photographer Patti Langton; Expedition or compiler British Institute in eastern Africa; PRM source Patti Langton
Date / Period: Date of photograph: 01/1979 - 02/1979
Acquisition information: Donated: 2008
Photographic process: Negative film Ilford
Dimensions: Image dimension 35 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2008.78.2.65
Research and responses: The clay, ludri, will have been collected from a site a half day's walk away from Lui, Jebel Debey or Jebel Domo. Women only collect clay. It is soaked for 4-5 days in a broken pot, kagye, to soften it. Then she will knead, tengua, the clay daily for about one and a half hours, and remove any stones. The Moru use a broken pot base, kagye, as a 'wheel', then make a base for the new pot, make coils (biri biri) and add them to the base, building the pot, using a calabash kidneys (beretye) to smooth it every so often. The lip is smoothed with fingers. The pot is decorated on the outside with a palm fibre roller, Lagiri, rope (kodra) or 4 lilo twigs. You can make many different designs, depending how you tie the twigs. The pot is dried inside the hut for a day. The following day the base is shaped by making a hole in the earth, and kidepo wood, which shapes the pot. After 3 days the pot is ready for firing.[Patti Langton 09/03/2009]

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