• Foto Number: SAH-562

The pottery is little known, but the beautiful piece from Ehi Mounto (Niger), 25 centimetres high, proves that the craft had reached an unusually high degree of perfection, at least in some places, far from being in decline. The black, very homogeneous clay had made it possible to produce a pottery in which the wall thickness did not exceed 3 millimetres at half height! (IFAN Collection, Dakar, Senegal) - 1969

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  Africa Niger Mauritania Sahara GreatDesert Senegal Dakar ceramics neolithic Prehistoric IFAN, Dakar, Senegal