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Making a wooden mortar for grinding cofee beans

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A Chabu maker of wooden mortars begins the process of shaping one with an axe. After having removed some of the bark from the piece of a tree trunk, he cleans the splintered area.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

E06

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Production of paanya for the market

Cultural group

Chabu

Country

Ethiopia

Place

Gobul, Gambela

Item/object

Paanyaa

Materials

Wood

Cultural context/event

General production

Social group setting

Individual producer

Location

Compound

Date of creation

2021-08-12

Unique ID

2019LG07-E06-1199