Colonoware Bowl

Black craftspeople transformed the earth by hand into goods used in everyday life, from modest to elaborate, illustrating their mastery of skilled craft. The colonoware bowl represents the pottery traditions of West and Central Africa, where Black craftspeople molded this low-fired, unglazed, coarse earthenware into bowls and vessels used to prepare and serve food. This bowl depicts, through its survival, the legacies of craft tradition in foodways.