Having finsihed carving two elepit milk container, Nakiru decorates them by burning shapes into their sides with a metal file and perforates them with holes to attach carrying string.
Funding
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme
History
Session
C002
Rights owner
Samuel Frederick Derbyshire
Cultural group
Turkana
Participants
Margaret Nakiru Lopwenya , Alice Akure
Country
Kenya
Place
Morusipo, Turkana
Item/object
milk container (elepit)
Techniques of production
Burned, Perforated
Materials
Wood-commiphora (Commiphora boviniana)
Materials alt
edweite
Cultural context/event
General production
Social group setting
Craftspeople working together
Location
Home
Temporality
This is the penultimate stage in a process of production that usually takes several weeks, or even months to complete.