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Feather sweeping of powdered glass

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posted on 2025-05-22, 11:17 authored by Abidemi Babatunde Babalola
Collecting powdery from the surface of the grinding stone. Feather is being used to gather the glass. Any feather can be used since it packs the powder glass better.The powdered glass is packed into the white bowl and dry sieved into the blue bigger bowl

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Rights owner

Abidemi Babatunde Babalola

Title alt

Gbigba gilasi elebu

Description alt

Gbiba gilasi elebu kuro loju olo. Iye ni a fin ko gilasi papo. Orisirisi iye la le lo tori ohun lo man ko gilasi daada.won ma wa ko edu gilasi sinu abo funfun

Cultural group

Yoruba

Participants

Abidemi Babatunde Babalola, Oladipo Agbogunleri, Kehinde Agbogunleri, Ayobami Samuel Diya

Country

Nigeria

Place

Ile-Ife, South west region

Cultural context/event

General production

Social group setting

Producer

Location

Home

Date of creation

2021-04-28

Unique ID

2019LG01-0021