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Culturally, the Calabash was used as a signal to call community members to a village meeting for unity. [7] It was drummed using metallic strings for its sound to reach longer distance. To this present day, The calabash is still used for many traditional functions and tourism. [4] Also, witch doctors use it to perform rituals at different ...
The use of the calabash in Hawaii has led to terms like "calabash family" or "calabash cousins", indicating an extended family grown up around shared meals and close friendships. This gourd is often dried when ripe and used as a percussion instrument called an ipu heke (double gourd drum) or just Ipu in contemporary and ancient hula .
The bones of the original 1950s building were made of old pine. On the rafters clung residue from the decades of fryer baskets, a small bit of every flounder, shrimp and oyster sent out to the ...
They use some small pieces of round stones called Barbarek which they put in a certain calabash, shake them and throw them out. After which they study them as per the direction each one took and give the answers either to the cause of illness or where about of the animals.
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Calabash chalk is a naturally occurring material composed of fossilized sea shells. However, it can be prepared artificially by combining clay, sand, wood ash and even salt. By molding and heating this mixture, the calabash chalk is obtained. [5] It is available as a powder, a molded shape or a block. [4] [5]
Kanpyō (かんぴょう or 干瓢), sometimes romanized and pronounced kampyō, are dried shavings of Lagenaria siceraria var. hispida, a variety of calabash gourd. The gourd is known as yugao or fukube in Japanese. [3] Kanpyō is an ingredient in traditional Edo style Japanese cuisine.
Mursik is a traditional fermented milk variant of the Kalenjin people of Kenya.It can be made from cow or goat milk and is fermented in a specially made calabash gourd locally known as a sotet.