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posted on 2024-11-20, 18:00 authored by Alfredo González-RuibalAlfredo González-Ruibal, CARLOS NIETOCARLOS NIETO
Context view of a Kadallu woman picking up new dom palm leaf fibres for braiding, during the manufacturing process of a mat (bursha) similar to the one underneath

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

C03

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Cultural group

Kadallu

Participants

Fatuma Abud Miter

Country

Ethiopia

Place

Babshankur, Benishangul-Gumuz

Item/object

Bursha

Techniques of production

Basketry-plaited

Materials

Leaf-dom palm leaf

Cultural context/event

General production

Social group setting

Individual producer

Location

Compound

Date of creation

2020-02-01

Unique ID

2019LG07-C03-0597

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