Earthen Pots of the Abor Tribe, Arunachal Pradesh- Abors are a people close to Nature and craftsmanship, and this clay pot delineates that aspect of their life. Much appreciated are their skills in pottery, weaving, and bamboo works; the clay pot shown here is typical of their artistry in creating things equally useful and beautiful.This clay was given a careful baking and everything else shaping was done manually-that means without a wheel-keeping the traditions from ancient times. Embellishments on the outer glaze of the pot are carved decorations, which are either stamped by a patterned mallet blow on it or carved into the clay. The designs might typically derive from nature, local flora or tribal motifs, imparting both artistic merit and meaning.
Such earthen pots serve the multiple uses of Abor people in their daily lives like storing water or grain or cooking food. By utilizing clay, the tribe seems to adhere to the sustainable living because clay is an ecological-local material and naturally serves as a cooling agent within whatever it ought to preserve.This was a clay pot once, now held in Indian Museum, Kolkata, to bear witness to the richness of craftsmanship from the Abor community marking an important point in folklore culture and realization of the importance of local resources in every day living.