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Circular decorated calabash piece

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A circular piece of gourd, cut from a Fellata vessel, used to smooth porridge. It has excised frieze-metopesque decoration depicting abstract, nature-inspired motifs. Front view

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

D02

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Fellata disk

Cultural group

Opo

Participants

Kong Chual

Country

Ethiopia

Place

Akula, Gambela

Item/object

Circular decorated calabash piece

Materials

Fruit-gourd

Cultural context/event

Domestic

Social group setting

Family

Location

Cooking area

Date of creation

2021-08-07

Unique ID

2019LG07-D02-0867