Making fish traps

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posted on 2024-11-20, 18:01 authored by Alfredo González-RuibalAlfredo González-Ruibal, Alvaro MinguitoAlvaro Minguito

Kong Jook has inserted the cylindrical body that forms the warp of the basket of the small fish trap into an elongated fruit of a nearby tree to continue the weaving process of the weft, with new reed fibres.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

D03

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Weaving a small fish trap (le'ek)

Cultural group

Opo

Participants

Kong Jook

Country

Ethiopia

Place

Akula, Gambela

Item/object

Le'ek

Materials

Fibre-reed fibre

Cultural context/event

Fishing

Social group setting

Men

Location

River

Date of creation

2021-08-05

Unique ID

2019LG07-D03-0892

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Keywords

Opo fish trap

Licence

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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