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1. Clay grinding bowl/men's eating bowl, Ahenkro, 1986

Description:
Large, shallow blackened clay bowls with interior striations are used in cooking and for eating. Cooks use them together with a small double-sided wooden pestle to grind pepper and cooked vegetables like "garden eggs" (small eggplants) for soups. They are also used as men's eating bowls (pԑԑ in Nafaanra). Bowls with striated interiors are occasionally found on archaeological sites in the Banda area, but this particular blackened form was not common until the 20th century when it was introduced from areas to the south. Potters in the region began to produce the bowls for sale both locally and at regional markets. During the 1980s and 1990s, this became one of the most popular pots made for market sale. Ahenkro, 1986.
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:
Ahenkro
Subjects:
Grinding bowls; Marketing ; Bowls; Eating bowls
Subjects Facet:
Food preparation; Foodways; Markets; Pottery
Identifier:
0
Creator:
Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:
Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:
1986
Date searchable:
1986-08
Genre:
35 mm slide
Genre Facet:
35 mm slide
Location(s):
Ahenkro;8.163438, -2.356776
Date Digitized:
2016
People Facet:
Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Commentary:
Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:
8.163438, -2.356776

2. Clay cooking pots, Ahenkro, 1986

Description:
The clay pottery jars (sro chͻ in Nafaanra) used to prepare food vary in size. Round-based jars like these are used to boil yams and other starchy foods. They are supported by hearth stones as they sit on the fire. Their lower surface is often textured or surface-treated with maize cob roulette (visible on the largest pot on the right) which may make them easier to handle when full of liquid and food. Ahenkro, 1986.
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:
Ahenkro
Subjects:
Cooking pots (sro cho); Maize cob roulette; Decoration; Jars
Subjects Facet:
Food preparation; Foodways; Pottery
Identifier:
0
Creator:
Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:
Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:
1986
Date searchable:
1986-08
Genre:
35 mm slide
Genre Facet:
35 mm slide
Location(s):
Ahenkro;8.163438, -2.356776
Date Digitized:
2016
People Facet:
Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Commentary:
Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:
8.163438, -2.356776

3. Clay jars used to prepare soup, Ahenkro, 1986

Description:
In the foreground are two clay pots used to prepare soup. A soup pot (chiin sinyjͻlͻ in Nafaanra) has sharp-angled (carinated) shoulders and an everted rim. They are simply decorated with grooved lines above the shoulder, but otherwise plain. The larger one on the right has been blackened, a treatment that is not commonly seen on archaeological pottery from Banda sites. Ahenkro, 1986.
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:
Ahenkro
Subjects:
Soup pots (chiin sinyjolo); Decoration
Subjects Facet:
Food preparation; Foodways; Pottery
Identifier:
0
Creator:
Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:
Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:
1986
Date searchable:
1986-08
Genre:
35 mm slide
Genre Facet:
35 mm slide
Location(s):
Ahenkro;8.163438, -2.356776
Date Digitized:
2016
People Facet:
Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Commentary:
Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:
8.163438, -2.356776

4. Preparing the evening meal, interior courtyard, Kafͻnͻ Katoo, Ahenkro, 1986

Description:
Women of Kafͻnͻ Katoo gather around multiple hearths in the compound's courtyard preparing the day's main meal. Kitchen equipment ranging from locally made pottery, metal pots, sieving baskets and headpans are visible. The women sit on low stools, some carved and others made from sawn boards. Posts surrounding several hearths create a rack for storing items. Thatch - and metal-roofed rooms surround the courtyard. Ahenkro, July-August, 1986.
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:
Ahenkro
Subjects:
Kafono Katoo; Headpans; Metal pots
Subjects Facet:
Stools; Cooking; Courtyards; Hearths; Housing; Metal roofing; Food preparation; Thatched roofs; Pottery
Creator:
Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:
Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:
1986
Date searchable:
1986-07/08
Location(s):
Ahenkro;8.164591, -2.355672
Date Digitized:
2018
People Facet:
Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Commentary:
Negative scanned by Ann B. Stahl
Geographic Coordinates:
8.164591, -2.355672

5. Women preparing food, Sabiye, 1986

Description:
Women in the house of Brɛmawuo work together to prepare the main meal of the day. The wives of the house sit on low wooden stools as they prepare food at clustered hearths. Each hearth is made of three laterite stones which hold the cooking pot above the fire. The women use an array of metal cooking vessels, calabash bowls (chrԑgbͻͻ in Nafaanra) and a clay pot (on the front hearth). The clay pot was likely purchased from one of the potting villages on the west of the Banda hills. Beneath the thatched roof behind the women are hearths used during rainy weather. This house was revisited in November 2018 and several of the women pictured here were interviewed about how foodways have changed over the three decades since this photo was taken. Among the women pictured are (L-R) Adwoa Hana (stirring), Yaa Yaa Dankwa (Stirring), Ama Nwotwenwaa (holding a calabash), Abena Kuma, (standing in blue cloth) and Ama Mensah (standing in red cloth). Sabiye, 15 August 1986.
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Relation:
https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17145 ; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17144
Date:
1986-08-15
Location(s) Facet:
Sabiye
Subjects:
Bremawuo House
Subjects Facet:
Gourd, Calabash; Stools; Cooking; Hearths; Textiles; Food preparation; West African strip weaving; Pottery
Identifier:
0
Creator:
Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:
Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:
1986
Date searchable:
1986-08-15
Genre:
;35 mm slide
Genre Facet:
35 mm slide
Location(s):
Sabiye;8.068359, -2.352164
Date Digitized:
2016
People Facet:
Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Commentary:
Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:
8.068359, -2.352164