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Manufacture and placement of a beehive or dana

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Honey gathering is one of the key economic, social and symbolic practices among the Chabu and other minority groups along the Ethiopian-Sudanese borderland. In the picture, we can see a set of hives, each composed of two wooden halves made out of a hollowed out tree trunk.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

E08

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

The dana (beehive) manufacturing workshop

Cultural group

Chabu

Participants

Dawit Rekay

Country

Ethiopia

Place

Mashi, Gambela

Item/object

Dana

Materials

Wood

Cultural context/event

Resource collection

Social group setting

Men

Location

Forest

Date of creation

2021-08-14

Unique ID

2019LG07-E08-1216