| Chadian craftsmen produce musical instruments of extremely high quality using materials such as wood, animal guts and horns, and calabashes. |
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| Some are large calabashes with leather drumheads and are played with the hands. |
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| Peul musicians play handcrafted flutes, drums, and string instruments, and they use calabashes to beat out rhythms. |
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| The chief brought us native beer in dirty calabashes, we gave him a mug of rum and sat under a council tree outside the village. |
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| Although the Kalenjin are not well known for their handicrafts, women do make and locally sell decorated calabashes from gourds. |
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| Drinking water was gathered in calabashes from a spring half way up the western face, reached by a brave volunteer lowered on a flax rope. |
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| In the early part of the 1800s, the area was extensively planted with maize, potatoes, kumara, taro, calabashes, melons and pumpkins. |
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| But baskets and ornamental calabashes can't put food in the mouths of 12 people. |
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| Decorated with potjiekos pots, beaded dolls and calabashes, the restaurant also promises to be easy on your pocket. |
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| In Makarou they played calabashes ringed with cowrie shells, creating a wonderful sound to accompany this joyous, fast-paced dance. |
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| They also take care of calves and clean, sterilize, and decorate calabashes. |
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| Slipping beneath the waters off Tobago, in 1969, Hutchinson threaded five calabashes on a rope anchored to a bed of coral. |
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| The intricately beaded calabashes and carvings indicate this tribal king's royal status. |
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| The Mayumbe near the coast paint calabashes, decorating them with hunting scenes and colorful geometric designs. |
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| He had broken calabashes and other noisy objects tied together to cover himself. |
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| Despite the fact that wooden milk pails are increasingly replaced by plastic and aluminium containers, calabashes still play an important role in the lives of the Kavango. |
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| The animals' shells made good calabashes for water and food. |
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| The only reminder of the separation of crowd and performers was the visibility of costumes and the empowered medicinal calabashes worn around the neck of the dance leader. |
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| A total of 5 samples totalling 1,250 km of loose overburden material left by the artisan miners were washed in calabashes. |
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| Peulh women are identifiable from far: they sell butter and fresh or curdled milk, all contained in three or four calabashes gracefully carried on their head. |
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| Traditional crafts of the town's predominantly Hausa population include weaving and dyeing of cotton, working in leather and metal, and the design of pottery, embroidery, and calabashes. |
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| Containers are made from natural materials, including dried gourds, calabashes, turtle shells, cocoons, wood, bark, sections of animal horn, hide pouches, coconut shells, and woven fibres. |
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| The blood that spurted from their necks was caught in calabashes, then served to the newly circumcised like an all-natural protein drink, to help them regain their strength. |
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| Almost everything can go into the oven with the clay, just think of terracotta pots, glazed tea pots, glass candle burners, mirrors, wood, MDF, reed garlands, calabashes and even hard plastic, but definitely no lead! |
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| Children collecting water with their calabashes, in one of the many wells dug into the bed of a dried-up river, in the area of Dierma, Burkina Faso. |
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| Under each wooden slat, a resonator made out of calabashes is fastened, tightly sealed with beeswax, and tempered with the oil of the nkuso fruit, giving the timbila their rich nasal sound and characteristic vibrations. |
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| The musicians play with calabashes and traditional three strings guitars. |
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| The instrument is a type of xylophone of about 1.5 metres in length, made of 20 slats carefully cut into different lengths and under each of which are fixed several calabashes. |
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