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posted on 2024-11-20, 18:01 authored by Alfredo González-RuibalAlfredo González-Ruibal, Alvaro MinguitoAlvaro Minguito
All this apparent scrap, piled up in the compound area that the blacksmith in the village of Akula uses as a workshop, is the raw material that Dech uses for his forging work.

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Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

D05

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

The raw material

Cultural group

Opo

Participants

Dech Guya

Country

Ethiopia

Place

Akula, Gambela

Item/object

Rimis

Materials

Metal-forged

Cultural context/event

Village

Social group setting

Client-Producer

Location

Workshop

Date of creation

2021-08-06

Unique ID

2019LG07-D05-0955

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    Keywords

    Opoblacksmithspeartoolsforge

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    CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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