Nasekon, Nakiru and Akure chipping, cutting and chiselling pieces of wood into apangach, akurum and elepit milk container on the day after travelling into the Morusipo hill range to collect wood.
Funding
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme
History
Session
C002
Rights owner
Samuel Frederick Derbyshire
Cultural group
Turkana
Participants
Nasekon Ekaale Louren
Country
Kenya
Place
Morusipo, Turkana
Item/object
milk container (apangach, akurum and elepit)
Techniques of production
Cut-chip-cut
Materials
Wood-commiphora (Commiphora boviniana)
Materials alt
edweite
Cultural context/event
General production
Social group setting
Craftspeople working together
Location
Home
Temporality
Work begins mid morning and continues until dusk.This is a single stage in a process of production that usually takes several weeks, or even months to complete.