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Making a grinding stone or phaotoma

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General view of the compound where two Opo women tap a stone recently brought from the forest in order to shape it as a grinding stone.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

D06

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Tapping the grinding stone with a pestle

Cultural group

Opo

Cultural sensitivity

TRUE

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-D06-0988