Half-finished vessel: very thick fabric.

Collection type: Object
Description: Half-finished vessel: very thick fabric.
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 250 mm outer rim
Object numbers: Accession number: 1927.61.10
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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