Sudan - on the move
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Leading home a camel carrying jerry-cans
and girrbas full of water
Photo: Toby Adamson/Oxfam |
In areas of Sudan where people may have to walk for several hours
to collect water or take their animals to graze, a whole craft tradition
has grown up to produce items for their animals to carry water,
people, or even homes.
Leather is stuffed with cotton to make smooth, comfortable saddles;
cut and stitched into suitcase-size bags often decorated with tassles;
plaited to make whips and ropes; or punched with a pattern and dyed
to make wall hangings for the home. Girrbas are crudely-tanned
goatskins used as water-carriers to load onto a donkey. Leather
is also made into simple buckets for lowering into deep wells.
Straw is woven into beautiful basketware bowls and plates. Some
baskets, such as the vase-shaped korio, are so tightly
woven that they can carry liquid. The korio has a lid and
is used by the nomadic tribes in western Sudan to carry milk.
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