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Making fish traps

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Amum holds the large fish trap with an inlet channel upside down while Lual taps the end of the mouth with a stick, showing how the captured fish would be removed.

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-D03-0919