You mention the use of broken pots ground to add to the clay body. This is called Grog. Grog is added to the clay body to make the clay easier to work but also allow the pot to take thermal shock which makes the pots able to be used directly on the fire as a cooking vessel. The use of grog is far more than being frugal with materials. It's about the physical, mechanical and chemical properties of the ceramic material.
I attended a workshop that you spoke at several years ago, for AP Art History Teachers in Salt Lake City. I am in awe of your knowledge and thank you for sharing it. Now I teach ceramics in addition to Art History and have my students watch these videos you made. Thank you again.
It would be nice if you could include some way for interested people to find and buy her pots in South Africa. But great, important work. It's amazing watching Mrs. Nhlapo turn a rough cylinder of clay into something so beautiful.
then you never been to africa...you do know that africa is a continent right? With thousands of people and thousands of culture that came from hundreds of country...it's like saying that all indian people or Arab people are the same and look the same and all have the same culture and wear the same cloth WHICH IS STUPID. These people are from south africa and ITS WINTER and ITS COLD...yes they have winter in Africa too...you want to see tities go to your mom.
Great video, the only thing you did not ask about what traditional paints are used on the houses and the pots. The guy at the end almost ruined this great document “Let them say their names and age”, if that is rude in Western culture why is that ok in this context.
@@vanbarker4616 its rude to ask a woman's age in western culture, why would it not be rude in African culture? Not to mention he was addressing different generations of women and asking their names. In African culture, specifically southern African cultures a person grows out of their name. The name is trapping for the young, the older you get the closer you are to graduating into an ancestor. The speaker was a white south African and knows better or rather should have known better.
What do you mean South Sotho. There's only one group of Sothos in Lesotho and South Africa. There's no North Sotho people. If you think the Pedi are a Sotho people then you're mistaken. Just say Sotho...
Thanks for your comment and interest in the film. Using the broad term “Sotho” to define all inhabitants of the central interior, or all speakers of a Sotho dialect (of which there are many) is an oversimplification of the complexity surrounding all Sotho-related peoples, and does not take into account the genealogical, social, and political histories of Sotho speakers dating to the 1450s. For a fuller explanation, you may be interested in reading the article “Seeing Sesotho : art, history, and the visual language of South Sotho identity,” and the dissertation “House of the Crocodile: South Sotho art and history in southern Africa.” Re a leboha, Ntate.
nationalism does not exist in ancient sotho culture....lesotho people are not homogenous, it's the white western people who introduce this one country one people shit, there are always multiple tribes, language, dialect and culture in every part of a country.
Stronger structure, will done mummy,Masha Allah 🙏🏾🌍IS NOT church IS ( ISLAMICA TRADITIONAL CULTURES) and the ELDERLY’S LADIES WERE MENY. NEVERTHELESS.ALL HUMANS BEINGS COLURES COMES FROM MOTHERS LAND AFRICA, AFRICA IS FLAT AND ROUND , Mummy, don’t worries at all your mothers though and Languages is your education, because common sense charity beginning at home well done peacefully 🙏🏾🌍
