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Plate 6 Series
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| Plate 6a. Man uproots enset plant for processing. [zoom] |
Plate 6b. Woman has removed the outer leaf sheaths. [zoom] |
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| Plate 6c. Women pull apart the pseudostem. [zoom] |
Plate 6d. Woman decorticates pseudostem using a bamboo scraper. [zoom] |
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| Plate 6e. Women pulverize corm in situ using serrated wooden tool. [zoom] |
Plate 6f. Squeezing starch (bulla) from decorticated and chopped
enset. [zoom] |
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| Plate 6g. Woman putting decorticated and chopped enset in pit lined
with enset leaves. [zoom] |
Plate 6h. Woman taking fermented kocho out of the pit. Note the
two qualities of kocho. The darker, poorer quality kocho is from the
edges of the pit. [zoom] |
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| Plate 6i. Woman chopping the fibrous enset using a wooden device
to protect her hands; nonetheless, women often have scars on their
hands. [zoom] |
Plate 6j. "Pearling" enset to remove fibrous remnants
and create a textured product before cooking. [zoom] |
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| Plate 6k. Shaping the kocho for additional chopping and fiber separation
before cooking. [zoom] |
Plate 6l. Cooking kocho into the pancake-like flat bread on an iron
griddle. [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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