Doorway of a compound house, Makala, 1994

A woman sifts flour in the foreground as two women in the background pound maize (corn, bledju in Nafaanra) in wooden mortars. The women are sheltered from the sun by the thatched roof that covers this entrance to the house compound. View to the street beyond. Makala, July, 1994.

Creator

• Dr. Ann B. Stahl

Subject

• Food processing
• Mortars & pestles
• Housing
• Thatched roofs

Publisher

• University of Victoria Libraries

Identifier

• 32

Keyword

• Headpans
• Pounding
• Metal pots

Date created

• 1994-07

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Geographic coverage

• Makala

Coordinates

• 8.142358, -2.383358

Provider

• Dr. Ann B. Stahl

Genre

• 35 mm slide

Date digitized

• 2016

Technical note

• Slide scanned by Veronique Plante

Year

• 1994

Permalink

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