Ceramics and Pottery Arts and Resources

 Zulu woman in traditional outfits.

There is something eternally graceful about seeing a women carrying a pot on her head. A vision of feminity, balance and sustanence with their gait being slow and gentle and their posture, dictated by maintanence of their load, remaining perfect. The daily pilgrimage to the village well was essential for suppl;y of water for drinking, cooking and washing.
I have spent time in rural India villages and it was a regular occurance to witness the village women carrying their pots.They never seemed to struggle with this task, even when transporting large vessels and strolled along with ease. I have always been transfixed by the timelessnes of this imagery whenever I have seen this in my travels , so I want to do a feature of visuals along this theme.

   Woman carrying pot, village of Songha, Mali

hjfklein – flickr

Bail Batik

 

Dancing performance in India ( Elica.org)

 

Celebration of  Vat  Savatri. On this day a married women invokes the blessing of Devi (Goddess) Savatri for the general well being of her husband and for the prolonging of her marital life. ( Photo by Rajen Nair

 

 

  Batwa women with traditional pots. Taken in Burundi, in the village of Kiganda in the province of Muramvya.

 

 

African woman with a large pot

Photo by echwaluphotography

 

 

 

Making pots in Malawi Village

Firelight

 

An old water  pot.

 

 

Women from a nomadic community from Rajasthan state carry drinking water.

 

 

Fulani woman

 

 

Egyptian traditional bread baking

 

 

African pottery making. Photo by Mjengwa

http://saharanvibe.blogspot.com.au

 

 

Pot cleaning

 

 

Balinese pot transport

 

 

Young Swazi Woman

 

 

Woman carrying traditional water pots for sale in Niger

 

 

Seeds Festival

Indian women with decorated pots

Xhosa women off to paarty ?

Photo by Lister Hunter

Bonalu means Bojanaalu (meal) in Telugu, is an offering to the Goddess of power. Women prepare Bonam with cooked rice, milk, sugar, onions in a pot, decorated  with small neem breanches and turmeric, kunkum and a lamp on the top it. Women put the pots on their heads and take it to Goddess temple, led by drummers and dancing men. ( Tellanga region, Andhra  Pradash India http://chandu-telangana.blogspot.com.au

Togo, West Africa

 

 

Two hundred women from indigenous (or adivashi) communities in Rajshahi, north-western Bangladesh, carried empty clay water pots to symbolically highlight the problem of water shortages.

( caroschoice blogspot )

 

 

Rajastani villager carrying a pot

Zulu woman carrying beer pot

Photo – Ariadne van Zandbergen

Pottery selling at an Argentina train station.

 

Mexican girl carrying  pot

( Mexican Postcard )

 

 

This woman stirs traditional atole (a thick, usually sweetened corn drink), prepared in an olla de barro (clay pot) over a wood fire.

Morelia, Mexico

 

 

Songhay pottery market,  Gorom Gorom

 

 

Girl with offering in Bali

Zulu beer pot

 

 

An Indian woman carrying grain pots

photo – Margaret Bourke White

1946, Life magazine

 

 

Taking offerings to the Pura Ulun Danu Bratan Temple, Bali Indonesia

 

 

Zulu girl with large basket

 

 

Zuni girl carrying jar ,New Mexico

 

 

 Making pottery in Segou village, Mali

 

 Sri Lanka Sunset

Parade of Fulani women with pots

 

 

 

Portuguese Azulejos

 

 

 

Female African figurine

 

 

 

‘Vanessa’ by James Denmark

 

 

Girls Pounding corn outside their homes

 Monkey Bay, South End of Lake Malawi

Photo by Nigel Pavitt

Also see the Veniceclayartists post – Women Using Traditional Pots