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Tana ware (also called Tana Tradition pottery or Triangular-Incised Ware) refers to a type of prehistoric pottery prominent in East Africa that features a variety of designs, including triangular incised lines and single rows of dots. [1] The presence of this pottery is largely regarded as one of the best indicators for early Swahili settlement ...
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The definition of pottery, used by the ASTM International, is "all fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed, except technical, structural, and refractory products". [1] End applications include tableware , decorative ware , sanitary ware , and in technology and industry such as electrical insulators and laboratory ware.
African Red Slip flagons and vases, 2nd-4th century AD A typical plain African Red Slip dish with simple rouletted decoration. 4th century. African red slip ware, also African Red Slip or ARS, is a category of terra sigillata, or "fine" Ancient Roman pottery produced from the mid-1st century AD into the 7th century in the province of Africa Proconsularis, specifically that part roughly ...
In Charleston, South Carolina, thirteen colonoware from the 18th century were found with folded strip roulette decorations. [3] [4] From the time of colonial America until the 19th century in the United States, African Americans and their enslaved African ancestors, as well as Native Americans who were enslaved and not enslaved, were creating colonoware of this pottery style.
Similar pottery, also characterized by incised and dotted wavy lines, along with barbed bone points, was discovered in the Lake Turkana Basin of Kenya. [1] This pottery is much like that of Northeast Africa, especially the Khartoum pottery, but there are some regional differences in the decorating motifs, implements, and tempers used in the ...
Mask from Gabon Two Chiwara c. late 19th early 20th centuries, Art Institute of Chicago.Female (left) and male, vertical styles. Most African sculpture from regions south of the Sahara was historically made of wood and other organic materials that have not survived from earlier than a few centuries ago, while older pottery figures are found from a number of areas.