The Art of Pottery and Spinning

Discover one of the robust heritages of the Igbo people through the skilled hands of its women, crafting earthen pottery with traditional methods. As recorded by various researchers, both indigenous and foreign, who lived among the Igbo people and published their research, they highlighted the significance of such crafts. Women in precolonial Igboland spun cotton and shaped clay into vessels for day-to-day life activities, a practice still celebrated today.

The written record

Historical context