A woman mixing clay (Fur: “daalu” ) with sorghum residue as temper for the pots (Fur: “tewe”) she is making.
Sarar village, Southern Darfur.
Photo: Randi Haaland, 1973
Category Archives: Pottery
Photo 24 – UBB-HAA-243
An elderly woman has prepared the body (Fur: “kiri”) of three pots (Fur: “ala”). On the picture she is preparing clay mixed with sorghum residue used as temper to make the neck (Fur: “kwei”) of the pots.
Toumra village, Northern Darfur.
Photo: Randi Haaland, 1978
Photo 25 – UBB-HAA-368
A woman is kneading clay for pottery making. Note on her right side the small clay ‘pounder’ used to mould the pot (Fur: “tewe”).
Gidad village, Southern Darfur.
Photo: Randi Haaland, 1973
Photo 26 – UBB-HAA-372
A “mir” (blacksmith/potter caste) woman is shaping the base (Fur: “kiri”) of the pot. Note the small clay pounder that she is using.
Gidad village, Southern Darfur.
Photo: Randi Haaland, 1973
Photo 27 – UBB-HAA-246
An elderly woman of the blacksmith/potter caste (Fur: “mir”) has prepared the body (Fur:” kiri”) of three pots in the foreground. She is now crushing fine-grained clay on a grindstone (Fur: “dida”) to be smeared on the interior wall of the pot.
Toumra village, Northern Darfur.
Photo: Randi Haaland, 1978
Photo 28 – UBB-HAA-380
A Fur woman of the “mir” caste is attaching a ring of wet clay to the body (Fur: “kiri”) of a pot.
Gidad village, Southern Darfur.
Photo: Randi Haaland, 1973
Photo 29 – UBB-HAA-385
A Fur woman of the “mir” (blacksmith/potter) caste is decorating the body (Fur: “kiri”) of the pot by pressing a shell against the wet clay.
Gidad village, Southern Darfur.
Photo: Randi Haaland, 1973
Photo 30 – UBB-HAA-383
A Fur woman of the “mir” caste is smoothing with a cow’s rib the interior surface of the rim/mouth (Fur: “uto”) area of the pot she is making.
Gidad Village, Southern Darfur.
Photo: Randi Haaland, 1973
Photo 31 – UBB-HAA-252
A woman of the “mir” caste is adding graphite to the interior wall of one of the pots she is making. Note the broken pot in the background, which contains graphite, and the pot with red ochre coloured water to be smeared on the outside wall of the pot before drying.
Sarar village, Southern Darfur.
Photo: Randi Haaland, 1973
Photo 32 – UBB-HAA-240
Two women of the “mir” caste are bringing a couple of sundried pots to be placed in a shallow pit used as firing place.
Sarar village, Southern Darfur.
Photo: Randi Haaland, 1973
Photo 33 – UBB-HAA-238
A woman of the “mir” caste” is covering the pots in the shallow pit with straw and pieces of firewood (Fur: “ar” ) before firing.
Sarar village, Southern Darfur.
Photo: Randi Haaland, 1973
Photo 34 – UBB-HAA-355
Women of the “mir” caste are selling pots at the local souq (market place). Ceramic goods are associated with the stigmatized “mir” identity and are transacted at a distance from the central market place where agricultural and pastoral products are transacted.
Kutum, Northern Darfur.
Photo: Randi Haaland, 1978
Photo 67 – UBB-HAA-344
Fur women are fetching water from a shallow pond by means of calabashes (Fur: “kere”) and pouring it into clay pots (Fur: “tawu”) that they carry on their heads back to the village. Activities connected with food preparation like grinding grains, collecting firewood, fetching water (Fur: “koro”) are considered female work.
Lower Wadi Azum, Western Darfur.
Photo: Gunnar Haaland, 1965
Photo 74 – UBB-HAA-168
Two Fur women are carrying water in ceramic pots (Fur: “tawu”) back to their village.
Jebel Si, Northern Darfur.
Photo: Gunnar Haaland, 1969
