Making fish traps

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

Amum weaves the first piece of the weft with kalphai vine to give a cylindrical shape to the stem body of his fish trap, once he has narrowed the mouth of the basket with three twists of braided vine.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

D03

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Weaving a large funnel-shaped trap (du'ur)

Cultural group

Opo

Participants

Amum Paytut

Country

Ethiopia

Place

Akula, Gambela

Item/object

Du'ur

Materials

Fibre-vine fibre

Cultural context/event

Fishing

Social group setting

Men

Location

River

Date of creation

2021-08-05

Unique ID

2019LG07-D03-0899

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Keywords

Opo fish trap

Licence

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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