Jug
Item number Af436 a-b from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Description
Dark brown to black jug with a semi-gloss, smooth surface. Short neck separates large round body from cup-shaped mouth. Handle extends from shoulder to lip. Jug is decorated with incised lines wrapped horizontally around top half of body, and interrupted by sections of curved lines running from the neck, and shoulder junction to the base. Other straight and curving lines decorate the neck, handle, and mouth. Ring base. Flanged stopper (part b) with projecting top sits in recessed opening of mouth.
History Of Use
Water container.
Cultural Context
utilitarian; household
Specific Techniques
Yoruba pottery is normally made by women. Pots are molded, by hand and sometimes with the feet. Bodies are coiled on molded bases. Corn cobs are rolled over the surface for consolidation, and then smoothed by hand. They are open fired with grass and brushwood for less than 2 hours (low-fired). For pots with black lustre, pots still hot from firing are smoked with wet leaves, then dipped in locust-bean liquor.
Item History
- Made in Edo, Nigeria during 1972
- Collected during 1972
- Owned by Andrew Stewart and Jessie Stewart before February 8, 1980
- Received from Andrew Stewart (Donor) and Jessie Stewart (Donor) on February 8, 1980
What
- Name
- Jug
- Identification Number
- Af436 a-b
- Type of Item
- jug
- Material
- clay
- Manufacturing Technique
- coiled and fired
- Overall
- height 34.0 cm, diameter 27.0 cm
- Part A
- height 34.0 cm, diameter 27.0 cm
- Part B
- height 9.8 cm, diameter 7.8 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Edo, Nigeria
Who
- Culture
- Yoruba
- Previous Owner
- Andrew Stewart and Jessie Stewart
- Received from
- Andrew Stewart (Donor) and Jessie Stewart (Donor)
When
- Creation Date
- during 1972
- Collection Date
- during 1972
- Ownership Date
- before February 8, 1980
- Acquisition Date
- on February 8, 1980
Other
- Item Classes
- ceramics
- Condition
- good
- Current Location
- Case 100
- Accession Number
- 0590/0001
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