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Nyakot-ka finishes adding a new coil on the already modelled base of a new sauce cooking pot (te xas), sticking the parts together with her fingers, creating a spiral of coils and giving the body of the vessel an inverted cone shape.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

D04

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Modelling a te xas pot

Cultural group

Opo

Participants

Nyakot-ka Wale

Country

Ethiopia

Place

Akula, Gambela

Item/object

Te ma

Materials

Clay

Cultural context/event

Domestic

Social group setting

Family

Location

Cooking area

Date of creation

2021-08-07

Unique ID

2019LG07-D04-0935