- Femme - Posted November 19, 2004 Oh wow...Beautiful Wiilo. Plz more.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
- Femme - Posted November 19, 2004 Footed, coiled basket with lid. Black and red dyed elements form a geometric design on the coilwork. The flat-topped conical lid and body of basket are covered with red, yellow, white and black beadwork in diamond designs. The fringe is coiled leather and shell pendants around the base of the body. Attached to the base are two beaded leather straps which cross over the basket lid. Leather Case. Covered in leather and decorated and fringed with shells, is used by women to carry the work they wish to do, such as fibers, or their plaiting, while they are out grazing their animal. Baskets are made of gourd, mats of grasses. Decorations combine tradition and innovation, in an evolving aesthetic of nomadic life. Coils of grass 2cm. thick wrapped around horizontal bunches of grass. Outer coils running up and down, are colored red, purple and orange. Edge cover is finished in bamboo splints wrapped around wooden hoops. Cover has ridge on top. String at the top of center ridge aids in removal. Milk Container, Lower Half. Vase-shaped basketry vessel, with leather covering around foot, twined covering around center, leather strap to hold cover in place and for carrying. Decorated with cowry and marginella shells, inside lined with pitch. I remember this!!! Milk Container Top. Shaped like an inverted vase, made of basketry material. It rests on top of the lower half, connecting together at the narrow lip on the bottom. Decorated with marginella shells, inside lined with pitch. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
- Femme - Posted November 19, 2004 Does anyone have pics of the aqal? Those mud and straw houses... ^^^^Does anyone remember that? ^^^ Market day... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
- Femme - Posted November 19, 2004 Women own the homes When a bride sets up her first house, her mother provides poles and mats from her own aqal. In the future, the bride will do the same for her own children. Through setting up, taking down, packing, and furnishing the aqal women teach their daughters the technology of house building and use of environmental resources. With each and every move knowledge deepens, along with a deep aesthetic sense, woven in to every mat and basket. If a woman should divorce, she will keep her house. When a woman dies, the house and its contents go to her daughters. The portable nomadic house, which in Somali is known as aqal, is a hemispherical dome 1.5 - 2.3 meters in height, and constructed of three component parts: -- semicircular shaped poles that give it its strength and form, -- vertical poles used for reenforcement, -- and layers of woven mats made of grass and acacia fibers used for covering and decoration. All three are tied together as an intricate web to form a strong impermeable package. This portable house is of female construction and execution. It is the gift of the mother and female side of the bride's family, and each female has the responsibility of mounting and dismounting her house for each move, maintaining and repairing its component parts, and eventually providing additional portable houses for her own daughters or womenfolk. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wiilo Posted November 19, 2004 yEah Jalaqsan remembers that, waa sida ay shukaansiga ku billowday. Haddey ku leedahay waa in datekeyga uu igu saadaa gaari kala xiran, idhaaf dhaqaalahaad u Darantehee..... :rolleyes: Jecliyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
- Femme - Posted November 19, 2004 A bride's female relatives prepare a Xeedho , or wedding basket. They dress the basket in finery and fill it with a special stew of meat, butter, dates, and spices. Then they sew the xeedho shut. Men from the groom's family must unstitch the lid without spilling the stew--while family and friends joke and goad them on. The care the men take represents the care the groom takes with his bride, and the protection his kin is expected to extend to his new family. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jacaylbaro Posted November 20, 2004 wow ,,,, what a pictures ,,, laakiin ma la socotaan dad badan baan meeshaan sawirkooda ku arkay ,,,, hadda gabdhaheenan SOL qaar baaban arkayba oo sawiro ay ku jiraan meesha soo dhigay,,,,,,, I'm so LUCKYYYYYYYY ,,, don't worry you are so beautiful ........... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
