Dassanech - Ethiopia
Dassanech | Omorate Village, Southern Omo | Ethiopia, 2011
As for most other communities of the Omo Valley, cattle are central to the lives of the Daasanach. Meat and milk are their staple foods. When they lose their cattle to disease, drought or raid by a neighbouring clan, they turn to the world’s largest desert lake for sustenance – hunting fish, crocodile and the occasional hippopotamus
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Editions
Limited to 19
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frame
Wallnut wood
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glass
Musem glass
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Sizes
074 x 062 cm - Edition of 9
120 x 100 cm - Edition of 6
170 x 140 cm - Edition of 3
207 x 170 cm - Edition of 1
