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Manufacture and placement of a beehive or dana

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A group of men from Mashi village divide a log into two lengthwise halves with their hands to make a beehive (dana), after having split it with two wooden wedges (lireek), which rest on the clean fracture of the log.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

E08

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Apaal, splitting a log

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-E08-1228