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Chabu house or Asee

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Interior view of a Chabu family house in Mashi. In the back left side of the house is the cooking area, used by women to prepare food. On the floor, around the fireplace, different pottery vessels employed to cook grain, beer, and coffee, together with a metal tray and pottery, glass, calabash, and plastic cups. Against the walls, a wooden stirrer. To the left of the central pole, a plastic water tank. In the foreground a cooking pottery vessel and to its right a baby sleeping covered by a sheet.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

E09

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Tãkãn (house interior)

Cultural group

Chabu

Country

Ethiopia

Place

Mashi, Gambela

Materials

Wood

Cultural context/event

Building

Social group setting

Family

Location

Home

Date of creation

2021-08-14

Unique ID

2019LG07-E09-1250