Processing calabash bowls, Banda, 1982

Nduo Wulo Kwadwo at farm, preparing calabash (gourd) bowls (chrԑgbͻͻ in Nafaanra) for market. After removing the pulp and seeds, he scrapes the gourd's interior surface with a metal blade to clean and thin its walls before drying. 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

• 16

Keyword

• Men's work

Date created

• 1982-08

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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