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Manufacturing process of a beer filter or huqu-timis

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Once the weaving of the weft of the beer filter with reed fibres has been completed, the hohuqu-timiscuts off the excess of the long, dry warp fibres with a razor blade.

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

2021-08-07

Unique ID

2019LG07-D07-1006