Crafts and Crafts People
Description
Adesuwa, age 10, and Akugbe, age 11, are going to have new party dresses made. They choose a tie-dyed fabric, and we learn how it is made. We also learn how the famous bronzes were cast. They are still being made in the traditional way, although the hand-pumped bellows has been replaced by an automobile battery-powered fan. Today's chief bronze caster narrates the dance drama that explains how the bronze casters became the most important craft guild in Benin.
Runtime
15 min
Series
Subjects
- Social structure (572)
- Social evolution (72)
- Islamic arts (9)
- Art appreciation (292)
- Art, Middle Eastern (7)
- Visual literacy (198)
- Art, African (16)
- Assimilation (Sociology) (93)
- Bronze castings (1)
- Tribes (122)
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c1994
Database
Films on Demand
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