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Manufacture and placement of a beehive or dana

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Dawit shapes a log with a machete (gäjäre) to prepare a wedge (lireek) for splitting open a tree trunk (action: apaal) to create the two halves of the future beehive (dana).

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

E08

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Preparing the tools to make a beehive: the lireek (wedge)

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-E08-1219