. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. B Fig. 6. Completing the base of a pot, Modjadji's village, 1975. A. Filling in the opening. B. Smoothing the closed base with a seed-pod. ditions in parts of the fire. Burnishing may be retouched after firing (Fig. 7). Breakages in the firing are explained in terms of poor-quality clay or the excess- ive heat of the fire. From the available evidence there do not seem to have been any major changes in pottery technology over the past 40 years. The process used today accords with Krige's description f
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. B Fig. 6. Completing the base of a pot, Modjadji's village, 1975. A. Filling in the opening. B. Smoothing the closed base with a seed-pod. ditions in parts of the fire. Burnishing may be retouched after firing (Fig. 7). Breakages in the firing are explained in terms of poor-quality clay or the excess- ive heat of the fire. From the available evidence there do not seem to have been any major changes in pottery technology over the past 40 years. The process used today accords with Krige's description for the 1930s (South African Museum corre- •spondence ) and the tools are similar to those collected by Krige in the 1930s and recorded by Lawton (1967: 172) in the 1960s. Lawton's (1967: 176) account of a single potter using the method of continuous coiUng seems to represent an exceptional Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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