Having spent weeks crafting and then decorating akurum and apangach milk container, Nasekon, Nakiru and Akure construct the hide components of the vessels, working together to cut and weave strips of goat hide around them.
Funding
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme
History
Session
C002
Rights owner
Samuel Frederick Derbyshire
Cultural group
Turkana
Participants
Nasekon Ekaale Louren, Margaret Nakiru Lopwenya
Country
Kenya
Place
Morusipo, Turkana
Item/object
milk container (apangach and akurum)
Techniques of production
Cut-cut, Plaited
Materials
Eleu a akine, Skin-goat skin
Cultural context/event
General production
Social group setting
Craftspeople working together
Location
Home
Temporality
This is the final stage in a process of production that usually takes several weeks, or even months to complete. The goat hide used on this day had been soaked over night.