Seated on low stools with their right legs extended in front of them, Ewe fishermen Maxwell Gbadago (left) and Dzobo Sebastian (right) use knives to whittle the ends of bamboo (pamplo ti) sticks that they will use in making a basketry fish trap (exa). One end of the stick rests on the ground behind them as they use outward strokes of their knives to thin and smooth the other end. Debris from trimming sticks lies around them. To Maxwell's right is a pile of unsplit bamboo culms. Sticks in various stages of processing lie in piles by their feet. A long blue fishing net lies folded in the area behind where they work. Akanyakrom, Banda District, Ghana.
