isqn naara sheko_049

Domain:

agriculture

Record type:

dataset

Host:

Marqos climbs a tree in search for good wood for mayda 'firesticks'. He also takes some rotten dry wood for kindling the fire with. He then makes a fire from scratch by twisting a stick between his hands. It is placed in the hole of a piece of wood, which again rests on a larger piece. He carefully builds a small fire and covers it with fragrant chips of wood. Over this smokey fire he puts a beehive halve and covers its holes, so that the hive will absorb the fragrance of the smoke. He comments that if a beehive is not smoked properly, bees will not enter it. A hive occupied in May would yield a good harvest in November or December.

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Languages

Sheko

isqn kapa sheko_045

A group of boys shows how to hang a beehive into a tree. They do this on a rather small tree in the

isqn qooxsa sheko_047

Marqos describes how one can see from the behaviour of the bees on the slits whether there is honey

isqn xsyaaxsa sheko_075

The beehive is tied firmly with the hauled up suku rope.

isqn asta kapmanki inchu sheko_072

Marqos has spotted a good tree to place the beehive in and inspects it from below. It needs to have