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Scraping the outside of the skin with a sharpened adze to remove the hair

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

NA07

Rights owner

University of East Anglia and University of Botswana

Title alt

go hala

Cultural group

Bakgalagadi / ǃXóõ

Participants

Madietsane Kikonyane, Kgothinyane Kikonyane, Donald Mabolelo

Cultural sensitivity

Animal Killing

Country

Botswana

Place

Ncaang, Kgalagadi District

Item/object

Initial Red Coloured Skin Processes

Materials

Leather-goat leather

Cultural context/event

General production

Social group setting

Community

Location

Workshop

Date of creation

2022-10-20

Unique ID

2020SG12-NA07-0363