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Making fish traps

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Before cutting it with his machete, Amum selects a vine, called kalphai, in the forest, which he will use for the weaving of the fish trap.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

D03

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Collecting the raw material for making fish traps: a vine called kalphai.

Cultural group

Opo

Participants

Amum Paytut

Country

Ethiopia

Place

Akula, Gambela

Item/object

Kalphai

Materials

Fibre-vine fibre

Cultural context/event

Fishing

Social group setting

Men

Location

River

Date of creation

2021-08-05

Unique ID

2019LG07-D03-0876