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Manufacture and placement of a beehive or dana

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Detail view of the mouth of the beehive -or daneshee- facing the ground, in which a stick has been pierced to stop the bundle of leaves that will cover the entrance, which can be seen resting on the ground on the right.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

E08

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Preparing the beehive cover

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-E08-1235