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1927.61.7.1

Piece of cord used for impressing a pattern upon the clay mounted on card with 1927.61.7 .2. [ZM 13/03/2008]

1927.61.7.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Piece of cord used for impressing a pattern upon the clay mounted on card with 1927.61.7 .2. [ZM 13/03/2008]
Long description
This is mounted (glued) along with 1927.61.7 .2 onto a small piece of card (L = 105 mm x W = 48 mm). [JP 23/7/2003]
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 String, Process Twisted
Dimensions
Length 95 mm as mounted
Object numbers
Accession number: 1927.61.7.1
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]

Also see RDF for impression taken from this item [JP 23/7/2003]

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] Referred to with 1927.61.7.2 on pages 68 (English) and 69 (French) of 'Modern Roulettes in Sub-Saharan Africa / Roulettes modernes d'Afrique sub-saharienne', by Alexandre Livingstone Smith et al., in African Pottery Roulettes Past and Present: Techniques, Identification and Distribution, edited by A. Haour et al. (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2010), pp. 36-114. The two PRM examples are mentioned in a discussion of the very few known ethnographic examples of 'roulettes on a continuous core' made using a cord: 'the roulettes collected by W. E. Nicholson in Sokoto (northern Nigeria) and now in the Pitt Rivers Museum...' [JC 19 11 2010]

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