Steps for Pottery Making:
1. Finding and collecting clay
2. Processing wild clay
3. Finding and collecting temper
4. Building
5. Adding slip
6. Burnishing
7. Painting
8. Firing
9. Out of the kiln
The value of manual training in the education of African students is being increasingly recognised. This handbook per-forms a service in making available representative examples of the art of our indigenous potters, thus providing a nexus between a primitive craft undertaken in the home from directly available materials on the one hand, and further developments in the plastic arts on the other. This work should provide an authoritative source of information for teachers of handicrafts.
My thanks are also due to Mr. G. W. Hockey for his valuable assistance with the drawings, and to many other friends for the help they have so generously given. Amongst these I must mention more particularly, Mr. E. C. Chubb, Mrs. E. Goodall, Mr. Pringle, Mr. K. R. Robinson, Miss M. Shaw, Mr. R. Summers, Dr. E. C. N. van Hoepen, Dr. N. van Warmelo, Dr. L. H. Wells.
The circumstances surrounding the production and evolution of stone implements have been revealed to us during the last eighty years by the painstaking labours of our pre-historians. They are so utterly remote from our daily lives that we can easily understand the attitude of our forefathers, to whom any unmistakable flake they chanced to find was a "fairy's stone"-made by the little people who haunted the woods and pastures on moonlit nights, whose ways are not our ways, and whose thoughts are not our thoughts. But pottery, even in its humblest forms, is part and parcel of our daily lives.
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