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Making fish traps

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James walks towards the village, with the different types of vine fibre on his shoulders, gathered in the forest for the making of a fish trap.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

D03

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Transporting the raw material for making fish traps.

Cultural group

Opo

Participants

James Buaom

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-D03-0884