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

An Opo woman is about to begin the work of tapping a stone with a pestle to shape it into a grinding stone, after another woman has made several marks on it with a piece of charcoal.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

D06

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Tapping the grinding stone with a pestle

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-D06-0984

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Keywords

Opo grinding stone phaotoma pestle

Licence

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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