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1927.61.5

Ball of clay.

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1927.61.5

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Collection type
Object
Description
Ball of clay.
Geographical reference
Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria
Sokoto
Person
Field collector William Ewart Nicholson
PRM source William Ewart Nicholson
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1927
Date collected
By 1927
Acquisition information
Donated: 1927
Materials and processes
Material Clay, Process Handbuilt
Dimensions
Diameter: max 68 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1927.61.5
Research and responses

Related Documents File - Letter from H. J. Braunholtz (Department of Ceramics and Ethnography, British Museum) to Henry Balfour dated 16 November, 1927 with a list of the objects from W. E. Nicholson sent to Pitt Rivers Museum and a draft paper on 'The Potters of Sokoto, Northern Nigeria' by W. E. Nicholson that Braunholtz suggests will possibly be published in Man. NB The paper was indeed published, see 'Publications history...' above. [GI 26/11/2001; JC 22 12 2006]

Associated publications
For the donor's own account of pottery in Sokoto, which illustrates and discusses the items in this collection, see 'The Potters of Sokoto, N. Nigeria', by W. E. Nicholson, in Man, Vol. 29 (March 1929), article 34, pp. 45-50; printout from JSTOR in RDF. [JC 22 12 2006]

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