. Bulletin. Natural history; Science. The jar was brought to the United States by the Harmon Foundation of New York City, and they agreed to leave it on permanent exhibition with the African ethnological collection at the Smithsonian. Michael Cardew arranged a United States tour for Ladi Kwali in 1972 to major cities on the East Coast and in the South and to Chicago. Los Angeles, and Dallas. The three people in the tour were Ladi Kwali, Michael Cardew, and Kofi Athey. Kofi Athey is a Ghanaian potter who also studied under Michael Cardew at Abuja, and he is now in charge of his own pottery
. Bulletin. Natural history; Science. The jar was brought to the United States by the Harmon Foundation of New York City, and they agreed to leave it on permanent exhibition with the African ethnological collection at the Smithsonian. Michael Cardew arranged a United States tour for Ladi Kwali in 1972 to major cities on the East Coast and in the South and to Chicago. Los Angeles, and Dallas. The three people in the tour were Ladi Kwali, Michael Cardew, and Kofi Athey. Kofi Athey is a Ghanaian potter who also studied under Michael Cardew at Abuja, and he is now in charge of his own pottery center at Jos, Nigeria. On May 17, 1972 Ladi Kwali made a traditional waterpot on the terrace outside the west door of Field Museum while Michael Cardew answered questions and talked informally about Nigerian pottery and Kofi Athey prepared the clay and translated for Ladi Kwali. About 450 people came to see the demonstration, some from as far away as Urbana, Illinois and Bloomington, Indiana. The photos show progressive stages in the building of this pot. It is the kind traditionally used in Gwari to transport water from its source to a larger storage waterpot which is kept in most African homes. After the pottery demonstration, Michael Cardew introduced a new film, "Abuja Pottery," made at the Pottery Training Shaping the neck of the pot with (ingers and the palm of the hand. Center by the Australian film maker Alister Hassam. Field Museum will acquire a print of this film for future educational purposes. The film shows Ladi Kwali and another traditional Gwari potter making hand-built pots alongside men throwing pots on a wheel. It also shows traditional Gwari firing methods as well as contemporary firings at Abuja. Traditional Gwari pots are fired by making a circle of stones, laying thin sticks on the ground, carefully piling the pots on the sticks, and covering them with broken potsherds and brushwood and grass. The fuel is lit and the pots are fired for not lon
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