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Building fire platform to make salt-enriched ash (gasang)

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posted on 2023-12-13, 17:20 authored by Andrea YankowskiAndrea Yankowski
Video of salt makers stacking wood, coconut husks and palm frond to make salt-enriched ash.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

I01

Rights owner

Andrea Yankowski

Cultural group

Boholano

Participants

Rosendo Datoy, Abundio Manongas, Dennis Nick M. Bitoy, Andress Ceroy, Felix Pinlac, Jr, Romulo Makiling, Romano Apatay, Warren Pinlac

Country

Philippines

Place

Santa Filomenia, Alburquerque

Materials

Husk-coconut

Cultural context/event

Material culture documentation

Intent

This vidoe show the very particular way that the firewood and coconut husks need to be stacked to make salt-enriched ash (gasang)

Date of creation

2022-06-18

Unique ID

2021SG08-I01-0147

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    Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

    Categories

    Keywords

    Gasangsalt-enriched ashcoconut husksbunot

    Licence

    CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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