Flowering flax plants, orho whose bark is used for making Urhobo rope

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posted on 2025-03-26, 15:20 authored by Akpobome Diffre-Odiete

The flax plant flowers and can be easily identified from afar with the distinctive colours of the flowers

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

A01

Rights owner

Akpobome Diffre-Odiete

Title alt

Orho ra vwo chavwo ufi, ro mo idodo

Description alt

Orho ra vwo chavwo ufi, ro mo idodo

Cultural group

Urhobo

Country

Nigeria

Place

Eghwu, Delta Region

Item/object

Flax plant

Materials

Fibre-flax

Materials alt

Orhon

Cultural context/event

Resource collection

Social group setting

Private

Temporality

dry season

Date of creation

2021-02-23

Unique ID

2019SG01-A01-0002

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Keywords

flower flax plants orho Urhobo rope

Licence

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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