Women removing calabash seeds from pulp, Banda, 1982

Calabash (gourd) seeds (fnumu in Nafaanra) are a prized ingredient used to prepare a much-valued soup (fnumu chiin; calabash seed soup). The pulp is set aside to decay, making it easier to remove the seeds, which are then cleaned, dried, and cracked by hand to remove the seed coat. Here women on Nduo Wulo Kwadwo's farm outside Banda-Ahenkro prepare to carry seeds home for processing. Outskirts of Banda-Ahenkro, August, 1982.

Creator

• Dr. Ann B. Stahl

Subject

• Food processing
• Gourd, Calabash
• Lagenaria siceraria
• Agriculture

Publisher

• University of Victoria Libraries

Identifier

• 20

Keyword

• Fnumu chiin
• Women's work
• Soup

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

Permalink

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