Making a grinding stone or phaotoma

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posted on 2024-11-20, 18:01 authored by Alfredo González-RuibalAlfredo González-Ruibal, Alvaro MinguitoAlvaro Minguito

Making a stretcher: two Opo men hold two long parallel poles while a third one ties the crossbars that will be the support for the stone selected for making a grinding stone, to carry it from the forest to the village.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

D06

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Selecting and hauling stone for making a grinding stone

Cultural group

Opo

Country

Ethiopia

Place

Akula, Gambela

Item/object

Phaotoma

Materials

Stone

Cultural context/event

Resource collection

Social group setting

Controlled group

Location

Forest

Date of creation

2021-08-08

Unique ID

2019LG07-D06-0975

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Keywords

Opo grinding stone phaotoma pestle

Licence

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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