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Making fish traps

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Amum begins to close the rear end of the basket that makes up the large fish trap, tying the long stems of the body of the artifact in a bundle with twisting turns of the increasingly closed kalphai lianas.

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-D03-0908