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Manufacturing process of a beer filter or huqu-timis

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Detail view of a bundle of dried plant fibres being moistened in a metal bowl. These stalks are used to form the warp that makes up the body of the beer filter (timis).

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

D07

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Weaving a beer filter (timis)

Cultural group

Opo

Participants

Jook Tut

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-D07-0994