Contemporary Process of Pottery Making in Yala Local Government of Cross River State

Ajoma Simon Okwoche; Emeka Emmanuel Okonkwo

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Contemporary Process of Pottery Making in Yala Local Government of Cross River State

Ajoma Simon Okwoche, Emeka Emmanuel Okonkwo

Published in American Journal of Aerospace Engineering (Volume 8, Issue 1)

Received: 23 September 2020 Accepted: 14 January 2021 Published: 28 January 2021

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This paper x-ray pottery production processes starting from the extraction of the clay, transportation of the clay, preparation of the clay fashioning, decoration and designing, firing and marketing of the finished product (pottery). Pottery is one of the oldest technologies of the people of yala. Although traditional pottery made by fashioning plastic clay into object of desirable shapes and then fired under a particular temperature in an open fire which resulted to permanent changes. Though yala potters still engage in traditional method, patronage of this pots are not quite encouraging. In the past majority of house wife engage in pots making for survival, they are no rules regardless of who made pots but yala traditional pottery making is associated with feminine (women). The wogada people settle at the bank of the river where clay materials are sourced from, this means that clay the major raw materials is still abundant in wogada the land of yeje. In Ebo Yala pottery is considered as women work is mostly done at their (extension) spare time on this day. In the olden days, it was a full time work that when the potters is going for extraction she go along with the children to help her get their clay and transport it back home. Who argue that pottery is the creation of objects from clay is associated with child birth and has been restricted to women alone, there are few communities where potting is carried out by both men and women. Although traditionally (indigenous) pottery production have survive in Yala (Ebo). The clay for pottery making is mostly found within the river line area, pots making are specially for some family linage, they are varieties of pots such as for cooking, ritual, drying of fish/meat, herbs, storing of drinking and also fetching of water.

Published in	American Journal of Aerospace Engineering (Volume 8, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajae.20210801.11
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Yala, Traditional Pottery, Clay, Water, Pot formation

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Ajoma Simon Okwoche, Emeka Emmanuel Okonkwo. Contemporary Process of Pottery Making in Yala Local Government of Cross River State. Am J Aerosp Eng. 2021;8(1):1-8. doi: 10.11648/j.ajae.20210801.11

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Ajoma Simon Okwoche

Department of Archaeology and Tourism, Faculty of Art, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria
Emeka Emmanuel Okonkwo

Department of Archaeology and Tourism, Faculty of Art, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria

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