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Mat-making among the Kadallu

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A Kadallu woman makes a mat (bursha): braiding strips with three palm leaf fibres and sewing the braided dom palm leaf fibres

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

X01

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Cultural group

Kadallu

Participants

Fatuma Abud Miter

Cultural sensitivity

TRUE

Country

Ethiopia

Place

Babshankur, Benishangul-Gumuz

Item/object

Bursha

Techniques of production

Basketry-plaited

Materials

Leaf-dom palm leaf

Cultural context/event

General production

Social group setting

Individual producer

Location

Compound

Date of creation

2020-02-01

Unique ID

2019LG07-X01-0767

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