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1. Clay jars stacked on firewood, awaiting firing, Bondakile, 1982
- Description:
- Finished and dried clay pottery jars are carefully placed on top of firewood in preparation for firing. Previously fired broken or flawed pots are used to bank the fuel, keeping it in place. Additional fuel will be placed on top of the stacked pottery and the fuel set on fire. The resulting bonfire will be allowed to burn down, after which the pots will be removed and finished while hot by being dipped in a bark solution. Mensah Listowell, Research Assistant (blue shirt), stands by as the potters prepare to place more fuel on the stacked pottery. Bondakile, October, 1982.
- Rights:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- Publisher:
- University of Victoria Libraries
- Location(s) Facet:
- Bondakile
- Subjects:
- Women's work; Potting; Bonfire; Jars
- Subjects Facet:
- Handicraft; Pottery making; Pottery; Firing (Ceramics); Firewood
- Identifier:
- 36
- Creator:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Contributors:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Date searchable:
- 1982
- Date searchable:
- 1982-10
- Genre:
- 35 mm slide
- Genre Facet:
- 35 mm slide
- Location(s):
- Bondakile;7.986031, -2.546331
- Date Digitized:
- 2016
- People Facet:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Commentary:
- Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
- Geographic Coordinates:
- 7.986031, -2.546331
2. Clay jars stacked on firewood, awaiting firing, Bondakile, 1982
- Description:
- Dried clay jars are carefully placed on top of firewood in preparation for firing. Their surfaces have been textured by rolling a maize cob (bledjukaan in Nafaanra) over the jars' lower surface (maize cob roulette) and decorated with shallow arched grooves made when the pot was in a leather-hard state. Additional fuel will be placed on top of the stacked pottery before the fire is lit. After the fire has burned down the pots will be removed and finished by being dipped while hot in a bark solution. Bondakile, October, 1982.
- Rights:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- Publisher:
- University of Victoria Libraries
- Location(s) Facet:
- Bondakile
- Subjects:
- Potting; Bonfire; Maize cob roulette; Decoration
- Subjects Facet:
- Handicraft; Pottery making; Pottery; Firing (Ceramics); Firewood
- Identifier:
- 37
- Creator:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Contributors:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Date searchable:
- 1982
- Date searchable:
- 1982-10
- Genre:
- 35 mm slide
- Genre Facet:
- 35 mm slide
- Location(s):
- Bondakile;7.986031, -2.546331
- Date Digitized:
- 2016
- People Facet:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Commentary:
- Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
- Geographic Coordinates:
- 7.986031, -2.546331
3. Pottery firing techniques, Bondakile, Adadiem and Dorbour, 1982, 1994
- Description:
- This short video made from still photographic images illustrates the firing techniques of Banda-area potters. It shows examples of bonfire firing and post-firing treatment of vessels in a solution of pounded bark. Images include a 1982 sequence following Mo potters in Bondakile and 1994 images of Nafana potters in Adadiem and Dorbour, featuring Afua Donkor and Yaa Nsiah Adiemu from the latter. Original images used to make the video are available in the Banda Through Time Repository. Bondakile, 1982. Adadiem, Dorbour, 1994. Length: 4.22 minutes.
- Rights:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- Publisher:
- University of Victoria Libraries
- Relation:
- https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17150 ; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17352 ; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17351
- Location(s) Facet:
- Adadiem
- Subjects:
- Potting; Bonfire; Water jars; Grinding bowls; Women's work
- Subjects Facet:
- Handicraft; Pottery making; Pottery; Firing (Ceramics); Firewood
- Creator:
- Elisa O'Malley
- Contributors:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl; Dr. M. Dores Cruz; Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Language:
- English
- Date searchable:
- 1982;1984
- Date searchable:
- 2019-04-18
- Genre:
- Digital video
- Genre Facet:
- Digital video
- Format:
- Video
- Location(s):
- Adadiem;7.986031, -2.546331
- People Facet:
- Elisa O'Malley
- Sketchfab Uid:
- Commentary:
- Video made from still images in Adobe Premier by Elisa O'Malley
- Geographic Coordinates:
- 7.986031, -2.546331
4. Farm shelter near Ahenkro, 1982
- Description:
- Interior view of a shelter constructed at farm with walls made from woven mats and a thatched roof supported by wooden poles around the shelter's perimeter. In the shelter's rear corner, calabash (gourd; chrԑ in Nafaanra) bowls and ladles rest on a low platform constructed of poles and thatch. Several other worn calabash and fired clay vessels are beneath the platform. A hearth, right foreground, is constructed of three stones in-between which dry wood collected from around the farm is placed. Several maize (corn; bleju in Nafaanra) shucks lie on the ground, lower left foreground. Farm near Ahenkro, September, 1982.
- Rights:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- Publisher:
- University of Victoria Libraries
- Relation:
- https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17118 ; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17120
- Location(s) Facet:
- Banda
- Subjects:
- Mats; Farm shelter; Maize
- Subjects Facet:
- Building; Farming; Gourd, Calabash; Basket making; Firewood; Corn
- Identifier:
- 36
- Creator:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Contributors:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Date searchable:
- 1982
- Date searchable:
- 1982-09
- Genre:
- 35 mm slide
- Genre Facet:
- 35 mm slide
- Format:
- Image
- Location(s):
- Banda
- Date Digitized:
- 2019-05-28
- People Facet:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Commentary:
- Slide scanned by Mark McIntyre
5. Newly fired clay jars, Bondakile, 1982
- Description:
- Clay pottery jars cool and dry after having been fired and dipped in a finishing bark solution. Once fully cooled, the jars will be stacked and stored before being sent to markets around the area. Jars like these (sro chͻ in Nafaanra) are used to prepare food, for example boiling yams and other tubers. To the right rear, wood is stored on a raised platform, awaiting use in cooking hearths. Bondakile, October, 1982.
- Rights:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- Publisher:
- University of Victoria Libraries
- Location(s) Facet:
- Bondakile
- Subjects:
- Potting; Cooking pots (sro cho); Jars
- Subjects Facet:
- Food preparation; Pottery making; Pottery; Firewood
- Identifier:
- 28
- Creator:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Contributors:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Date searchable:
- 1982
- Date searchable:
- 1982-10
- Genre:
- 35 mm slide
- Genre Facet:
- 35 mm slide
- Location(s):
- Bondakile;7.986031, -2.546331
- Date Digitized:
- 2016
- People Facet:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Commentary:
- Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
- Geographic Coordinates:
- 7.986031, -2.546331
6. Farm shelter near Ahenkro, 1982
- Description:
- Interior view of a shelter constructed at farm with walls made from woven mats and a thatched roof supported by wooden poles around the shelter's perimeter. Pieces of firewood lay near the shelter's entrance with a small wooden double-ended pestle/grinder lying on its side in front of the wood. Several maize (corn) cobs (bledjukaan in Nafaanra) stripped of their kernels lay on the earthen floor of the shelter. Farm near Ahenkro, September, 1982.
- Rights:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- Publisher:
- University of Victoria Libraries
- Relation:
- https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17118 ; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17119
- Location(s) Facet:
- Banda
- Subjects:
- Mats; Farm shelter; Maize; Grinding pestle
- Subjects Facet:
- Building; Farming; Basket making; Firewood; Corn
- Identifier:
- 38
- Contributors:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Date searchable:
- 1982
- Date searchable:
- 1982-09
- Genre:
- 35 mm slide
- Genre Facet:
- 35 mm slide
- Format:
- Image
- Location(s):
- Banda
- Date Digitized:
- 2019-05-28
- Commentary:
- Slide scanned by Mark McIntyre
7. Carrying firewood from farm, Ahenkro, 1982
- Description:
- Yaa Yable Wo carries firewood on her return from farm. Until recent years, meals were most often prepared over hearths fueled by firewood. Women and children collected downed tree limbs and other dry wood from farmlands surrounding the villages. Wood was headloaded back home and stacked on platforms raised above the ground to be stored until needed. Cooking over charcoal in fabricated metal coalpots became more common in the late 20th-early 21st century as charcoal burners moved into the Banda area and charcoal production increased. Recently, gas cookers have begun to be used by people able to afford industrial cookers and the bottled gas need to fuel them. Ahenkro, December, 1982.
- Rights:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- Publisher:
- University of Victoria Libraries
- Location(s) Facet:
- Ahenkro
- Subjects:
- Headloading; Women's work
- Subjects Facet:
- Hearths; Cooking; Lifting and carrying; Firewood
- Identifier:
- 15
- Creator:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Contributors:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Date searchable:
- 1982
- Date searchable:
- 1982-12
- Genre:
- 35 mm slide
- Genre Facet:
- 35 mm slide
- Location(s):
- Ahenkro;8.164591, -2.355672
- Date Digitized:
- 2016
- People Facet:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Commentary:
- Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
- Geographic Coordinates:
- 8.164591, -2.355672