Having spent weeks crafting akurum and apangach milk container, Nasekon, Nakiru and Akure decorate them. Nakiru collects camel dung from the fire.
Funding
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme
History
Session
C002
Rights owner
Samuel Frederick Derbyshire
Cultural group
Turkana
Participants
Margaret Nakiru Lopwenya
Country
Kenya
Place
Morusipo, Turkana
Item/object
milk container (apangach and akurum)
Techniques of production
Scraped, Painted
Materials
Ochre, Ngachin a ekal, Akimet a ekal, Animal-camel dung, Animal-camel fat
Materials alt
Emunyen
Cultural context/event
General production
Social group setting
Craftspeople working together
Location
Home
Temporality
This is a single stage in a process of production that usually takes several weeks, or even months to complete. The red ochre used on this day was collected several days previously. Families often keep a supply of red ochre at home for use on such occasions, and for bodily decoration (particularly of young girls and women).