- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ink-pot of black pottery. [MJD 18/09/2013]
- Long description
- Ink-pot of black pottery. The pot has an flared neck at the top. There is a conical cup attached to one side. The sides of the pot are incised. The lip around the neck has four perforation holes. [MJD 18/09/2013]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1911
- Date collected
- 1910 - 1911
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1913
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery, Process Fire-Hardened, Process Moulded, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Height: max 88 mm, Length: max 110 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1913.31.5
- Associated publications
- A colour image was published on page 12 of in West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song, (2015, London: British Library) editted by Gus Casely-Hayford, Janet Topp Fargion and Marion Wallace, which accompanied the British Library exhibition West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song, which ran from 16 October 2015 - 16 February 2016. There are two other Pitt Rivers Museum objects in the photograph also [1923.36.105 and 1946.6.79]. The accompanying caption incorrectly states this object is pictured in the top left, it is, instead the top right object. The caption reads 'These pottery inkpots, from different areas of West Africa, show the importance of writing and manuscript cultures to different ethnic groups. The top two pots feature penholders. Top left (sic.): Kano, Nigeria. Collected 1910-11. Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.' [MOBB 9/11/2018]
Search terms: Vessel, Pottery, Writing, Writing Accessory