Covering bundles of bark fibre with earth

EMKP community researcher Enoch Mensah has covered bundles of stripped bark with a blue plastic sheet. He uses a shovel as he begins to cover the plastic with earth. The bark has been placed in a shallow hole in the pile of earth that was dug from an adjacent pit, excavated as a source of building material for two earth-wall structures being built on the grounds of the Banda Cultural Centre. The bundles of bark fibre will be used to bind the wood and raffia stick frame of a wattle-and-daub structure. The bark fibre is buried to preserve its malleability. Banda-Ahenkro, Banda District, Ghana.