Processing harvested calabash, Banda, 1982

Family members work together at farm to process calabash (gourd; chrԑ in Nafaanra) grown as both a cash crop and a source of household objects and its seeds as a soup ingredient. The men use large knives to split the calabash, after which they will remove its pulpy center and scrape its interior walls. Pictured here are (left to right) Maa Afia (girl), Ama Bosin (woman), O. K. Kwabena Krah, Nduo Wulo Kwadwo and Joshua Tandor. Farm on the outskirts of Banda-Ahenkro, August, 1982.

Creator

• Dr. Ann B. Stahl

Subject

• Gourd, Calabash
• Lagenaria siceraria
• Agriculture
• Cash crops

Publisher

• University of Victoria Libraries

Identifier

• 15

Keyword

• Farm work
• Men's work

Date created

• 1982-07

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Geographic coverage

• Banda

Provider

• Dr. Ann B. Stahl

Genre

• 35 mm slide

Date digitized

• 2016

Technical note

• Slide scanned by Veronique Plante

Year

• 1982

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