THE CERAMIC OF MY REGION

INSTITUCION EDUCATIVA LOS FUNDADORES

KNOWING MY COMMUNITY AND MY REGION

AREA: ENGLISH                                              GRADE:

TEACHER:  Elizabeth Cardona Vargas

NAME:                        

The ceramic of my region:

Mud was an element that the indigenous utilized for doing many figures and pots. In past time, a mine of mud was discovered in the community of Portachuelo, a place located in one of the four indigenous reservations of Riosucio Caldas. It is Cañamomo and Lomaprieta.

The first inhabitants of this community learned to work the ceramic or pottery and this was the center of the economy for them, almost all the ingenious is used to make mud’s implements for cooking as pans, casseroles, plates and they also invented figures as: chickens, pigs, calabazos, money box, oil lamp, large jars and vases. The ceramic vessels were elaborated to domestic activities like to cook foods as: mazamorra, sancochos, frijoles, tamales, arepas and to ferment the “chicha” used to animate the festivities and social gatherings of old people in which they recreated the myths and legends, furthermore, the historic facts of our country, the same for the region’s personages. 

At the present time, the ceramics in Portachuelo´s community have been worked though with less intensity that before, but even it is an economic activity and model of culture.

The women that work the mud are called “Ollanderas”, they have inspired some dances and the main festivity of Portachelo “La fiesta de la olla” which is celebrated each year.

THE POT’S FESTIVITY

It was born in the year of 1966 in a meeting that was proposed by Simeón Romero and Francisco Aricapa, looking for diversion to children. The first festivity was directed by Juan de la Cruz Hernández, Luis Estanislao Largo, Simeón Romero and Francisco Aricapa. Then the work of mud was emphasized as a recognizing to this ancestral labour in the community.

This cultural activity has had outstanding representants as: Ana Tulia Guerrero, Fidelia Hernández, Maria Nieves Hernández, Fidelia Vargas, Luis Ángel Guerrero, Candelaria and Gregoria Hernández, Anadelia Hernández, Angela Vargas, Natividad Guerrero, Graciela and Radiela Ladino.

Mud’s Process

1.    Mud is extracted of special hollow.

2.   This is put to dry until it stays well toasted.

3.   After of this, a portion is put into an ‘estopa’ and a person walks on it with a handle until it stays dust.

4.   After, on strains the dust with a colander.

5.   This toast is thrown in a receptacle and water is added until it is manageable.

6.   Next, people can make what they want with this: pans, casseroles, pots, etc.

7.   When the objects are ready, on lays them put at the sun until they became harder.

8.   Then, on scrapes earth with a knife in to the ‘callanas’ interior part, a little of water is added too until to get a liquid substance that is spread in order to seal them.

9.   After this, they are exposed at the sun.

10.       When they are well dry a bed with brave cane (caña brava) and tins of “guadua” is done to burn the objects in the oven.

11.       Finally, the figures are taken out and carried for selling at the town.

ACTIVITY No.1

Search the meaning of the following words and verbs:

MUD		TOAST
MONEY BOX		SCRAPE
OIL LAMP		EXPOSE
POTS		TAKE OUT
PANS		DUST
PUT		RECEPTACLE
DRY		COLANDER
STRAIN		HOLLOW

ACTIVITY No. 2

Answer the following questions:

☺  In what years was the mud’s mine discovered?

☺  What figures can be invented?

☺  Where is taken out the mud of?

☺  What materials are needed for burning the objects?

☺  What is the process to do ceramic figures?

☺  Which are some names of Portachuelo´s women that work the mud?

☺  How about the “pot’s festivity”?

3.   INVESTIGATION’S ACTIVITY

Write a short story or important biographic data about:

Radiela Ladino:           ______________________________

                            __________________________________

                            __________________________________

Graciela Ladino:         ______________________________

                            __________________________________

                            __________________________________

If you know other important people in the same community or in Riosucio you can write about them too. You must read the data before the group.

ACTIVITY No. 4

 Find in the following soup of letters the words: callanas, mud, chicken, ceramic, calabazos, cultures, pans, pigs, objects, toast and stay.

A	C	A	L	L	A	N	A	S
S	W	A	P	I	G	S	C	N
T	T	A	Y	J	O	M	E	T
C	J	K	U	H	U	K	T	S
E	T	O	I	D	C	E	S	A
J	O	R	T	I	C	H	V	O
B	I	T	H	P	A	N	S	T
O	E	C	E	R	A	M	I	C
C	A	L	A	B	A	Z	O	S
I	C	U	L	T	U	R	E	S

ACTIVITY No. 5

Complete the following sentences with the words below.

☺  This mud is __________ well toasted.

☺  Next of this, on introduces a __________ in a ________ with a _________ until it is converted in dust.

☺  This dust is thrown in a receptacle and __________ is added until it ________ manageable.

☺  After this, they are newly _________ at __________.

☺  Next, the figures are taken out and ____________ for selling.

·        Stays

·        Handle

·        Portion of mud

·        Initially

·        Stopa

·        Water

·        Exposed

·        The sun

·        Carried

ACTIVITY No. 6

Paint the following pictures and put the name to the objects.