The are an indigenous people who live in the Southern Highlands. They were extensive travelers in both the highlands and lowlands surrounding their homeland, particularly to the south. To live, they hunt Yams, Manioc, sometimes meat from village raised Pigs and wild Cassowary or other forest game such as tree Kangaroos. They also use the Rainforest to make the rounded grass huts they live in. They all used on language to communicate. The Huli tribe exist and currently has a population of 65,000 people. The pottery I looked at was very earthy and had dull colors. The shape of the vessel I looked at was very unique and was used for a cooking pot. I wanted to replicate this pot, I mimicked the style of the pattern on the top and carved the bottom to the best replication, but still be able to have it stand on its own.
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My second tribe I looked at was the Ainu Tribe of Japan. The Ainu are an indigenous ethnic group of people that live in Hokkaido Japan. In 1899, the Japanese government passes an act which labelled the Ainu "former Aborigines", declaring that the Ainu had been integrated into the Japanese population. Meiji government 's 1899 policies resulted in the ban of the Ainu language and Ainu children being given Japanese names and put into Japanese schools. Result of these polices, many Ainu people suffered discrimination and became ashamed of their language and culture. The act continued for a hundred years. The 1899 act was finally officially reversed on June 6th 2008. Today only small numbers of Ainu remain. The reference image I used was this pot, it is very rectangular. I chose this because it is very different compared to just a thrown pot and I wanted a different style. What I did different to my pot compared to this one is, the top of my pot is where the most square part is then my base is more rounded but still flattened out. Counting with this would be to have it fired then find a very earthy dirt color, then go in and paint the line work to have it more resemble my reference image.
The first tribe I looked up was the African tribe called Zulu. are a Bantu ethnic group of Southern Africa and the largest ethnic group in South Africa. In the early nineteenth century a young Zulu prince, Shaka, came onto the scene and welded most of the Nguni tribes into the powerful Zulu Kingdom. However, during the late 1800s, British troops invaded Zulu territory and divided the Zulu land into thirteen chiefdom's. Their pottery style is, very round thrown, burnished pots. The vessel I looked at was called a beer pot. They would use these types of pots and gather in a circle and share a drink as family/tribe. I used this reference image to guide myself on how I wanted to replicate a beer pot. I took a twist on the pot that I researched above, its a lot smaller. So maybe you are just passing a drink to one person in your family. I burnished the pot with a spoon and I am hoping that the color payoff will be a dark rich black. Then I took slip application and applied dots around the pot to give it more aesthetic appeal.
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Concentration
For my concentration I decided on finding different tribes through the world and looking at the types of pottery they have made. I wanted to try and replicate what I found on these different styles and cultures. I think that a lot of people assume that people that were in tribes were very primitive and they just had stones and sticks, but in reality they had beautiful thrown pots with bold colors, and intricate details. So why I wanted to look at different tribes and cultural backgrounds and replicate them to get a better understanding on how people use to live and why they made certain things they way they did. |