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Epel prepares a ball with her hands using part of the clay lump that she keeps wet in the pot on the left, as a first step in making a kare kondo pot.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

E04

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Modelling a kare kondo pot

Cultural group

Chabu

Participants

Epel Werike

Country

Ethiopia

Place

Gobul, Gambela

Item/object

Kare kondo

Materials

Clay

Cultural context/event

Social gathering

Social group setting

Community

Location

Compound

Date of creation

2021-08-13

Unique ID

2019LG07-E04-1170