Plate 5 Series


Plate 5a. A woman selling kocho at a local market. Note that enset leaves are used like plates or mats on which to display the product. Only women market enset food products. [zoom]	Plate 5b. Husband and wife sellling amicho, the small, immature corm, at the market. The amicho will be boiled and eaten like a potato. [zoom]

Plate 5c. Chef in restaurant in Addis Ababa displaying a variety of cooked foods made bulla (including mixtures with butter, cheese, meat, and dark greens) and kocho (rolled pancake bread). [zoom]	Plate 5d. Boy feeding enset leaves to cattle. [zoom]

Plate 5e. Enset leaves being sold in the market. They will be used as wrappers for fresh food, as well as for cooking food on the griddle. [zoom]	Plate 5f. Man using cordage made from dried enset petioles and midribs as construction material to build a house. [zoom]

Plate 5g. Men selling rope made from enset fiber (gleaned from processed pseudostems) at a local market. Most rope sellers and buyers are men. [zoom]	Plate 5h. Woman at local market selling a basket sieve both made from enset fiber and used to sift kocho and bulla before cooking. [zoom]

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Photo Credits:
Assefa Amaldegan (Plate 5d)
Steven Brandt (Plates 3, 5b, 5f, 9)
Clifton Hiebsch (Plates 5c, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6e, 6f, 6h, 6j, 8)
Anita Spring (Plates 1, 2, 4, 5a, 5e, 5g, 5h, 6d, 6g, 6i, 6k, 6l, 7)

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