Blacksmithing

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posted on 2024-11-20, 18:01 authored by Alfredo González-RuibalAlfredo González-Ruibal, Alvaro MinguitoAlvaro Minguito

Dech strikes on the anvil, with his mallet, the spear blade socket to finish rounding it, after having shaped the cutting edges and the leaf shape of the piece.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

D05

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Shaping a spearhead at the forge

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-D05-0967

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Keywords

Opo blacksmith spear tools forge

Licence

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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