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This work, a clay vessel, can be played like a drum. —To play it, use one hand to cover and open the circular cut while the other taps the vessel rhythmically to make different percussive sounds. Madoda Fani creates his forms by coiling and hand-building shapes from clay, and then smooths its surface using a stone and oil to repeatedly burnish it. This work was made while Fani taught at Haystack Mountain School of Craft, the renowned craft school founded in Maine in 1950, to show his students how to achieve a similar finish.
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Igubu Dram
2023
Medium/Technique
Hand coiled and built, stone/oil polished, smoke-fired clay
Dimensions
Height x width x depth: 63.5 x 33 x 96.5 cm (25 x 13 x 38 in.)
Credit Line
The Wornick Fund for Contemporary Craft
Accession Number2023.1081
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
This work, a clay vessel, can be played like a drum. —To play it, use one hand to cover and open the circular cut while the other taps the vessel rhythmically to make different percussive sounds. Madoda Fani creates his forms by coiling and hand-building shapes from clay, and then smooths its surface using a stone and oil to repeatedly burnish it. This work was made while Fani taught at Haystack Mountain School of Craft, the renowned craft school founded in Maine in 1950, to show his students how to achieve a similar finish.
DescriptionSmoke-fired, hand-coiled and built, stone/oil polished clay
Provenance2023, sold by Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 13, 2023)