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Making fish traps

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Lual and Amum finish preparing the narrowing of the river channel to place the two large fish traps (du'ur and memer) that appear in the foreground.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

D03

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Setting the fish trap in the river

Cultural group

Opo

Participants

Amum Paytut, Lual Kim

Country

Ethiopia

Place

Akula, Gambela

Item/object

Du'ur, memer

Materials

Fibre-vine fibre

Cultural context/event

Fishing

Social group setting

Men

Location

River

Date of creation

2021-08-05

Unique ID

2019LG07-D03-0918