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Manufacturing process of a beer filter or huqu-timis

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Surrounded by a group of the village of Akula elders, Jook Tut -the hohuqu-timis or man who weaves a beer filter- holds in his hands a bundle of slender dried stalks from which he will make the warp on which he will weave the body of a traditional Opo beer filter.

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-D07-0995