Object Details
- Local Numbers
- H 3 LLU 16 EE 70
- General
- Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
- Local Note
- A26
- Frame value is 23.
- Slide No. H 3 LLU 16 EE 70
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Collection Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Place
- Africa
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Occupation
- Artists
- Topic
- Women
- Pottery
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Culture
- Lulua (African people)
- See more items in
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Congo (Democratic Republic) / EECL / Bakwa Balaie Village, Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (col.)
- Date
- 1970
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA EECL 7358
- Type
- Archival materials
- Slides (photographs)
- Color slides
- Collection Citation
- Eliot Elisofon Field Collection, EEPA 1973-001, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
- Genre/Form
- Color slides
- Scope and Contents
- "Instead of firing in a kiln, African ceramics are placed in a shallow pit or stacked in the open, over a layer of dry brushwood, covered with more wood and very quickly fired, at a relatively temperature. Firing can take anywhere from twenty minutes to a few hours to complete. The potter can control the firing and vary the resulting color of the ceramics by varying the amount of oxygen reaching the ceramics." [Darish P., 1990: Fired Brilliance: Ceramic Vessels from Zaire. University of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery of Art]. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon traveled to Africa from March 17, 1970 to July 17, 1970.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536955032661-1536955037485-0
