Pottery cooking-pot, perforated and with a rounded base. The upper part has been decorated by rolling a short twisted cord over the surface. [JC 23 8 2001].

Collection type: Object
Description: Pottery cooking-pot, perforated and with a rounded base. The upper part has been decorated by rolling a short twisted cord over the surface. [JC 23 8 2001].
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria; Ogun State Abeokuta
Cultural groups: Yoruba
Person: Field collector Henry Balfour; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1930
Date collected: July - September 1930
Acquisition information: Donated: 1930
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Process Perforated, Process Decorated
Dimensions: Width: max 80 mm, Height: max 90 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1930.43.86
Associated publications: Referred to on page 242 of 'The Former Kano? Ethnoarchaeology of the Site of Kufan Kanawa, Niger, West Africa', by Anne Haour (University of Oxford, D.Phil. thesis, 2002): 'The Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford has on display a Yoruba perforated cooking pot (accession number 1930.43.86) collected in the 1930s...the holes wre made in the body of the vessel prior to firing; the intention was obviously to produce a pot with a perforated base or sides'. See also page 111 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]