{"id":2344,"date":"2011-05-30T18:36:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T18:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2011-05-30T18:36:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T18:36:06","slug":"bottle-tswa-peoples-rwanda-early-mid-20th-century-ceramic-resin-commercial-paint-wax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/30\/bottle-tswa-peoples-rwanda-early-mid-20th-century-ceramic-resin-commercial-paint-wax\/","title":{"rendered":"Chewa Early-mid 20th century, Ceramic, resin, commercial paint, wax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/clif66.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2345\" title=\"clif66\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/clif66.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image by cliff1066\u2122<\/em><br \/>\nAfrican potters\u2013primarily women\u2013handbuild a variety of vessels that they  embellish with beautiful colors, designs and motifs before firing them  at low temperatures. Containers made for daily use hold water or serve  as cooking utensils. They also make vessels to be used in special  ceremonies or that become part of an assemblage of objects placed in a  shrine. The brilliant red, bold zigzag motif was probably rendered with  imported paint and applied to the body after firing. The surface was  covered with wax to enhance the natural color of the clay. The paint and  wax may have been applied to the bottle by someone other than the  potter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mask, Nuna peoples, Burkina Faso, Mid-20th century, Wood, pigment, metal<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3086\/2923617488_c084479222.jpg\" alt=\"The 20th Century\" width=\"728\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Image by cliff1066\u2122<\/em><br \/>\nThis mask depicts a butterfly, one of a cast of masquerade characters,  and represents a bush spirit. Because butterflies signal the coming of  rain, they are connected with the start of the farming season. The plank  mask\u2019s broad, richly patterned wings and the small birds and chameleons  inserted into the upper edge are characteristic of Nuna masks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jar, Chewa peoples, Lilongwe area, Malawi, Late 20th century, Ceramic, resin<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3246\/2923613000_1abd5fd69c.jpg\" alt=\"The 20th Century\" width=\"728\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Image by cliff1066\u2122<\/em><br \/>\nThis large ovoid vessel was handbuilt by a Chewa woman and fired at a  low temperature. The potter achieved the aesthetically vibrant surface  by splashing a vegetable decoction on the body immediately after firing.  The dark spots were caused by firing the jar in a kiln with reduced  oxygen. Although the dark spots were unintentional, they add to the  pot\u2019s aesthetic effectiveness. These vessels are typical of pottery  found throughout Africa that function as containers for foodstuffs.  Chewa women keep such vessels near the cooking area and used them to  store locally brewed maize beer (kuchasu). Kuchasu is consumed before  traditional ceremonies of the Gule Wamkulu (Great Dance), which is  performed at funerals and initiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image by cliff1066\u2122 African potters\u2013primarily women\u2013handbuild a variety of vessels that they embellish with beautiful colors, designs and motifs before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[666,667,668,669,670,671,672,673],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malawi-culture","tag-bottle","tag-ceramic","tag-commercial-paint","tag-early-mid-20th-century","tag-resin","tag-rwanda","tag-tswa-peoples","tag-wax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}