The Blooms of Banjeli documents research in Banjeli, Togo on iron-smelting technology, its rituals, and the sexual prohibitions surrounding it. Including rare historical footage from the same village in 1914, it provides a unique technological record of the traditional method of preparing a furnace to smelt iron. For centuries the high-quality iron blooms from Bassari [...]
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This is one of the few films to document archaeological work on ancient civilizations in Africa. It also deals with an important subject, African iron smelting, and presents convincing evidence for early indigenous technologies far more complex than previously expected. The Tree of Iron is set in Tanzania, East Africa, on the western shores of [...] Last Updated- Oct 26, 2009 12:46 Blacksmith Sarpong, 35, operates a small shop in Ghana’s second largest city, Kumasi. He is trained to produce cooking utensils, but prefers to make guns as he can earn more money that way. When sales are good his shop brings in US$1,000 a week, he said. Foreigners paying better [...] June 2009 A Tribute to: Philip Simmons More than 600 assemblages of wrought iron—his life’s work—exist in Charleston and beyond. Now, the hunt is on to locate and document each piece and preserve the handcrafted legacy of a beloved man Written By Stephanie Hunt Photographs by Peter Frank Edwards Charleston magazine salutes the life and [...] Swiss archaeologist Eric Huysecom and cameraman Bernard Augustoni work with 13 master smelters to recreate the building of a traditional furnace for smelting iron in Mali. There has not been any traditional iron smelting in Africa since the 1960′s, in part due to the importing of cheaper substitutes. |
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