Afikpo Pottery
Afikpo Pottery:- Pottery is the craft of making ceramic materials using mud. Potters dig up clay with additives from the ground, mix with required quantity of water. The clay mixture is modeled into the desired shape and form by using the hand or jiggered using a tool that copies the form of a master model onto a production piece, the product will be dried in a mold or cut into slabs and subjected to a very high temperature (fired) to harden the piece to enable it hold water. The methods for forming pottery depends on the artisans (skilled craft workers who make things by hand) who create them. The potters make decorative potteries like dishes, plates, cups, cooking pots, storage jars etc.
Some findings show that the earliest examples of pottery making in Nigeria were found in Afikpo in Ebonyi State. According to D. D. Hartle in 1966, pottery production in Afikpo dates back to about 2935BC.
Pottery has remained a very important artifact for the reconstruction of Afikpo cultural past.
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