Manufacturing process of a beer filter or huqu-timis

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posted on 2024-11-20, 18:02 authored by Alfredo González-RuibalAlfredo González-Ruibal, Alvaro MinguitoAlvaro Minguito

An Opo elder holds a bundle of reed stalks from which a traditional beer filter (timis) will be woven. During the last five years, these filters have fallen into disuse and have been replaced by plastic fibre sacks.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

D07

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Weaving a beer filter (timis)

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

2021-08-06

Unique ID

2019LG07-D07-0993

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Keywords

Opo beer filter timis weaving sorghum

Licence

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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