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CIMG0836 Wood collection of Jimma province,Ethiopia

Posted by ingrid Langerak on May 6, 2014 at 4:57pm
Whiole I am at it, I am also showing here some of my favorit wooden items, all household items, like the boxes meant for the knifes. The bowls to be served with food, shoes, a bowl on food to be serving pieces of bread around and the small wooden box is meant to hold a gift and that way presented, so like a wrapping paper. They all have a warm pattina from use. I love them.
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  • Betty May 6, 2014 at 5:31pm

    Gorgeous! When you look at the picture you really long to touch the wood.

    I love the "sandals". Who would have worn them?

  • ingrid Langerak May 6, 2014 at 5:59pm

    Ladies of the Kaffa province.

  • ingrid Langerak May 6, 2014 at 6:00pm

    Betty, it  also  feels great to the touch, so smooth.

  • Eva Baby May 6, 2014 at 8:45pm

    Wonderful items - I am quite speechless! Wonderful carvings, especially on what you call the boxes for the knives. Just fabulous!  Looks like thick solid Wood. Wow!!!!  I love old and good Wood. It is so full of stories and still alive somehow.  The shoes remind me of Moroccon Hamam-shoes.. with their "high heels and high fronts"........very interesting.

  • ingrid Langerak June 29, 2014 at 10:54pm

    Sorry a bit late to comment back, but yes Eva these are solid wooden items. I love them myself also a lot  The high heeled shoes are sometimes not so heigh depend how intense they have been worn.  Just to keep their feet dry. (I do not know if they managed to not to get stuck in the mud, because at that time there were not tar roads.

  • Eva Baby July 2, 2014 at 11:12am

    Thanks Ingrid, no Problem, I still have not installed the new Internet at home..... so I only look at it from time to time, like now..............

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