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After smoothing the outer surface, Nyanjo smoothes the inner surface of a te ma pot with the help of a river mollusc valve to remove fingerprints from the coiling work.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

D04

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Modelling a te ma pot

Cultural group

Opo

Participants

Nyanjo Abäshiro

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-D04-0946