- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Roller for impressing designs on pottery, of plaited plant fibre. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 21/10/2004]
- Cultural groups
- Hausa
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1930
- Date collected
- July - September 1930
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1930
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Leaf, Process Plaited
- Dimensions
- Length: max 84 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1930.43.28
- Associated publications
- Three of these eight rollers (1930.43.25 - 1930.43.32) are illustrated in black and white as Figure 7.19 on page 222 of 'The Former Kano? Ethnoarchaeology of the Site of Kufan Kanawa, Niger, West Africa', by Anne Haour (University of Oxford, D.Phil. thesis, 2002). On page 221, Haour refers to the roulettes as being on display at the Museum and as being 'plaited from an unspecified plant leaf'. See also page 101 of Ethnoarchaeology in the Zinder Region, Republic of Niger: The Site of Kufan Kanawa, by Anne Haour (Oxford: BAR), where the same image and information appears. [JC 15 5 2003] Referred to (as part of the group of eight rollers 1930.43.25 - 1930.43.32) on pages 72 (English) and 73 (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. Referred to as evidence of the spatial distribution of the category of roulettes consisting of 'braided strips on a continuous core'. [JC 19 11 2010]
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