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Stripping bark for use as fibre ties

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posted on 2025-12-05, 16:44 authored by Enoch Mensah
Tahiru Alhassan (right) rolls stripped bark that he and colleagues have stripped from harvested young branches. Kofi Gyato (left) holds a young branch as others load a motor tricycle with harvested wood that will be used as wall posts for a wattle frame structure being built at the Banda Cultural Centre. Banda District, Ghana.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Rights owner

Ann Brower Stahl

Cultural group

Nafana

Participants

Tahiru Alhassan, Kofi Gyato, Godfred Kwaku Osei

Country

Ghana

Place

Banda-Ahenkro, Banda District, Bono Region

Materials

Bark-bark fibre, Wood

Cultural context/event

Building

Location

Bush

Date of creation

2023-01-24

Unique ID

2020LG05-SA03-0468