Not specifically documented under a standardized local term beyond the village name itself
The hand-coiling and communal mound-firing of terracotta pottery by the women of Kalabougou, a village on the Niger River directly across from Ségou, central Mali. The village's female potters produce an estimated 2,000 pots per week, supplying markets across Bamako, Ségou, and beyond, making Kalabougou one of the most productive traditional pottery centers documented in West Africa. Individual pots are hand-built within family compounds throughout the week, then carried collectively to a shared firing ground every Saturday and Sunday afternoon, where women and their daughters construct a large firing mound by layering branches and unfired pots together before igniting it in a communal, open, non-kiln firing process.
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