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Making fish traps

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Lual cuts the excess end of the bundle of long stems located at the back of the body of the basket with a machete, while two other men cut the entrance channel on the bitroncoconical shape that forms the front part of the large fish trap.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

D03

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Weaving a large fish trap with an entrance tunnel (memer)

Cultural group

Opo

Participants

Lual Kim

Country

Ethiopia

Place

Akula, Gambela

Item/object

Memer

Materials

Fibre-vine fibre

Cultural context/event

Fishing

Social group setting

Men

Location

River

Date of creation

2021-08-05

Unique ID

2019LG07-D03-0915