POTTERY PRODUCTION AS AN ASSET FOR WOMEN'S LIVELIHOOD: THE KECHENE WOMEN POTTERS IN ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA

Pottery production, even though it requires toil and dirties the potters with mud and smoke, it gives them great pleasure and happiness as a means of livelihood. One potter explains, "There is no thing which could satisfy me as what pottery could satisfy me. It is by pottery that I am living a satisfactory life and can support my children." Another potter wishes that "the entire world could be a potter." In expressing her love for the art, another potter says that the customary non-working days of Saturdays and Sundays each week "are too long for me. I am eager for Monday to start my pottery. When I produce pottery, even if I am sick, I feel healthy. I like to produce pottery even though I have a hard pain, my pottery will treat and cure me."