Bawa Ushafa

Bawa Ushafa

Bawa Ushafa pulling
handles at Abuja
Pottery, Nigeria,
in 1965.

Bawa was the first trainee at the Abuja Pottery. He was senior potter of the ten throwers working at Abuja with Michael Cardew in the early 1960s.

This picture is taken from Pioneer Pottery, Michael Cardew's instructional book for potters, and is reproduced by kind permission of Seth Cardew.


 
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Kovels' New Dictionary of Marks: Pottery and Porcelain, 1850-Present by Ralph and Terry Kovel

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