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African memory of WW1, although the description is of WW2.
"Bilali of Faransekila": A West African Hunter and World War I Hero according to a World War II Veteran and Hunters' Singer of Mali
Water Container (Jidaga), Maninka, 1900, Art Institute of Chicago: Arts of Africa
Maninka potters form the base of a work by gently pounding a flattened pancake of clay over a convex mold with a stone or fired-clay tamper; often, the mold is an old or broken pot that has been saved for the purpose. If the vessel requires a foot, it is added to the base while it is still inverted. After it has dried enough to be self-supporting, the base is turned upright and placed on a turntable. Among the Maninka, turntables are specially commissioned wooden platters. The potter then scrapes the interior walls of the base before adhering coils to complete the vessel’s form. She perfects the lip using a piece of wet cloth and may go on to burnish parts of the vessel to give it a smooth finish. This pot reportedly comes from the village of Kangaba. Its carefully considered form reflects the process that was used to make it. The rounded base, formed in a convex mold, ends in a narrow ridge that visually separates it form the sloping upper body and short flared neck, which were formed by coiling. Contrasting areas of texture and burnished red slip accentuate these transitions. Thin dotted lines, achieved by carefully rocking a notched metal ring along the soft clay, lie like jewelry around the waist and just inside the lip, while two small raised pellets mark a focal point at the neck. Gift of Keith Achepohl Size: 38.1 x 39.4 cm (15 x 15 1/2 in.) Medium: Terracotta and slip
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/185697/
Resource extraction to support colonial war efforts as remembered in oral poetry composed by Seydou Camara.
"Bilali of Faransekila": A West African Hunter and World War I Hero according to a World War II Veteran and Hunters' Singer of Mali
Water Container (Jidaga), Maninka, 1900, Art Institute of Chicago: Arts of Africa
Maninka potters form the base of a work by gently pounding a flattened pancake of clay over a convex mold with a stone or fired-clay tamper; often, the mold is an old or broken pot that has been saved for the purpose. If the vessel requires a foot, it is added to the base while it is still inverted. After it has dried enough to be self-supporting, the base is turned upright and placed on a turntable. Among the Maninka, turntables are specially commissioned wooden platters. The potter then scrapes the interior walls of the base before adhering coils to complete the vessel’s form. She perfects the lip using a piece of wet cloth and may go on to burnish parts of the vessel to give it a smooth finish. This pot reportedly comes from the village of Kangaba. Its carefully considered form reflects the process that was used to make it. The rounded base, formed in a convex mold, ends in a narrow ridge that visually separates it form the sloping upper body and short flared neck, which were formed by coiling. Contrasting areas of texture and burnished red slip accentuate these transitions. Thin dotted lines, achieved by carefully rocking a notched metal ring along the soft clay, lie like jewelry around the waist and just inside the lip, while two small raised pellets mark a focal point at the neck. Gift of Keith Achepohl Size: 38.1 x 39.4 cm (15 x 15 1/2 in.) Medium: Terracotta and slip
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/185697/
Water Container (Jidaga), Maninka, 1900, Art Institute of Chicago: Arts of Africa
Maninka potters form the base of a work by gently pounding a flattened pancake of clay over a convex mold with a stone or fired-clay tamper; often, the mold is an old or broken pot that has been saved for the purpose. If the vessel requires a foot, it is added to the base while it is still inverted. After it has dried enough to be self-supporting, the base is turned upright and placed on a turntable. Among the Maninka, turntables are specially commissioned wooden platters. The potter then scrapes the interior walls of the base before adhering coils to complete the vessel’s form. She perfects the lip using a piece of wet cloth and may go on to burnish parts of the vessel to give it a smooth finish. This pot reportedly comes from the village of Kangaba. Its carefully considered form reflects the process that was used to make it. The rounded base, formed in a convex mold, ends in a narrow ridge that visually separates it form the sloping upper body and short flared neck, which were formed by coiling. Contrasting areas of texture and burnished red slip accentuate these transitions. Thin dotted lines, achieved by carefully rocking a notched metal ring along the soft clay, lie like jewelry around the waist and just inside the lip, while two small raised pellets mark a focal point at the neck. Gift of Keith Achepohl Size: 38.1 x 39.4 cm (15 x 15 1/2 in.) Medium: Terracotta and slip
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/185697/
Water Container (Jidaga), Maninka, 1900, Art Institute of Chicago: Arts of Africa
Maninka potters form the base of a work by gently pounding a flattened pancake of clay over a convex mold with a stone or fired-clay tamper; often, the mold is an old or broken pot that has been saved for the purpose. If the vessel requires a foot, it is added to the base while it is still inverted. After it has dried enough to be self-supporting, the base is turned upright and placed on a turntable. Among the Maninka, turntables are specially commissioned wooden platters. The potter then scrapes the interior walls of the base before adhering coils to complete the vessel’s form. She perfects the lip using a piece of wet cloth and may go on to burnish parts of the vessel to give it a smooth finish. This pot reportedly comes from the village of Kangaba. Its carefully considered form reflects the process that was used to make it. The rounded base, formed in a convex mold, ends in a narrow ridge that visually separates it form the sloping upper body and short flared neck, which were formed by coiling. Contrasting areas of texture and burnished red slip accentuate these transitions. Thin dotted lines, achieved by carefully rocking a notched metal ring along the soft clay, lie like jewelry around the waist and just inside the lip, while two small raised pellets mark a focal point at the neck. Gift of Keith Achepohl Size: 38.1 x 39.4 cm (15 x 15 1/2 in.) Medium: Terracotta and slip
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/185697/
Duende Libre perform “Fefo (Hamana)”