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Manufacturing process of a beer filter or huqu-timis

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A group of Opo men drink traditional sorghum beer through a cane while sitting in a circle inside a hut. Although this is the traditional mode of collective consumption for both men and women, they now use plastic buckets instead of the traditional clay pot (kwee).

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

D07

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Collective consumption of traditional sorghum beer

Cultural group

Opo

Country

Ethiopia

Place

Akula, Gambela

Item/object

Timis

Materials

Fibre-reed fibre

Cultural context/event

Social gathering

Social group setting

Community

Location

Compound

Date of creation

2021-08-05

Unique ID

2019LG07-D07-0992