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Description: | Eathernware pots, Benin, West Africa
Hand-made bowl, partly covered with red slip, polished, ornament cheifly impressed by the lines are incised through the band of white slip. Nigeria
Large container, rounded base, wide neck and everted rim (partly reconstructed), with bands of roulette decoration on shoulder and lower half of body with four moulded protrusions (one detached and missing) on shoulder covered with red pigment (polished). Raised band at widest point with incised lattice pattern on a cream slip, remainder of exterior covered with red pigment. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | clay Yorùbá jars (food processing & storage) pigment | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-102307 |
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