STRIKING IRON: DOKWAZA: LAST OF THE AFRICAN IRON MASTERS скачать в хорошем качестве

STRIKING IRON: DOKWAZA: LAST OF THE AFRICAN IRON MASTERS

Selections from Dokwaza: Last of the African Iron Masters, 1988, produced in cooperation with the Canadian National Office of the United Steel Workers of America This video documents a reenactment of a traditional smelt by Mafa ironworkers in Lum-Ziver, Cameroon, led by master smith Dokwaza. They use a furnace type and process unique to the northern Cameroon and Nigerian border region, and no longer in use by the early 1960s. At the time of filming, Dokwaza was sixty-five years old and had not fired a smelting furnace for twenty-eight years. Presented in three sequences, the film first introduces Dokwaza as it documents how the furnace and bellows are built. The second sequence follows the long day of the smelt: the furnace is charged with iron ore and charcoal and offerings are made; after frenzied working of the bellows accompanied by music and song, Dokwaza removes the bloom mass from the shaft. The third sequence takes place in the forge and shows the refining of the bloom and its forging into a Mafa hoe form. Video by D. Paul Morris, Nicholas David, and Yves Le Bleis, courtesy of Nicholas David