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Making fish traps

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Under the watchful eyes of the village children, Amum cuts the leftover stems from the funnel inlet of the large fish trap with his machete, after having performed the same task with the stems from the back of the basket.

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-D03-0911