Noun.
Pronunciation: XXX
Lmala woven from tree roots, for water or milk.
The ntutua looks like it has been woven from reeds, although it is actually made of roots from the arkek tree. Its shape is Turkana. Like the njongor, it has a woven top.
To seal the ntutua, blood is poured into it for the first use. Then, it can be cleaned and used to store water or milk. The liquid contents will remain very cool. The ntutua is cleaned with lorien in the usual way of cleaning lmalasin between uses.
Description
Container capacity: from 1 to 2 liters
Roughly cylindrical container woven from tree roots.
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This is the draft manuscript of the Samburu Milk Project, © 2024 William Rubel.
Published by William Rubel
I am an author who writes about traditional food and foodways. My book, The Magic of Fire (2002) is about hearth cooking. I have written an introductory history of bread, Bread, a global history (2011) and am currently writing a history of bread for the University of California Press. Other areas of interest include wild mushrooms, and specifically the treatment of Amanita muscaria in the historic record. I also write about Early Modern British Gardens, and for a more general audience, I write for Mother Earth News on bread, gardening, and more. I have an ongoing research project into the smoke-cured fermented milk of the Kenyan Samburu tribe. I am a co-director of the Samburu Lowlands Research Station, Lengusaka. I am the founding editor (1972) of Stone Soup, the magazine of writing and art by young people.
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