Ethiopia 13, Addis Ababa, Ethnological Museum3

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ETHIOPIA
Addis Ababa
Ethnological Museum
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ADDIS ABABA
Addis Ababa (the name means 'new flower') is of
fairly recent origin - Menelik II founded the
city in 1887 but is an important administrative
centre not only for Ethiopia but also for the
whole of Africa. Situated in the foothills of the
Entoto Mountains and standing 2,400 metres above
sea level it is the third highest capital in the
world. The city has a population of about four
million.
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The Ethnological museum hosts the cultural
aspects of the people and traditions of the
tribes of Ethiopia. The museum is unique for the
displays are according to life cycles in a human
being.
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The first section about childhood, second
adulthood and last topic is death beyond
practices of each Ethiopian tribes. Traditional
tales games of some tribes are displayed in the
childhood. House making, hunting, handicrafts,
beliefs, traditional medicines of different
ethnic groups are further elaborated in the
adulthood section.
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Attention is also given to different religions in
Ethiopia Christianity, Islam, Judaism, as well
as traditional African beliefs. For each topic,
information on posters is illustrated with
artifacts and pictures.
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Eragrostis tef, teff, Williams lovegrass, annual
bunch grass, taf is an annual grass, a species of
love grass native to the northern Ethiopian
Highlands and Eritrean Highlands of the Horn of
Africa. Eragrostis tef has an attractive
nutrition profile, being high in dietary fiber
and iron and providing protein and calcium.
Between 8000 and 5000 BC, the peoples of the
Ethiopian highlands were among the first to
domesticate plants and animals for food and teff
was one of the earliest plants domesticated
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Unique among African countries, Ethiopia has a
written history of over 3,000 years dating back
to Queen of Sheba and King Solomon
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Ensete is a genus of monocarpic flowering plants
native to tropical regions of Africa and Asia. It
is one of the two genera in the banana family,
Musaceae, and includes the false banana or enset
(E. ventricosum), an economically important food
crop in Ethiopia
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Pillows
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Door
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Catha edulis (khat, qat, or "edible kat) is a
flowering plant that is native to the Horn of
Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Among
communities from these areas, khat chewing has a
history as a social custom dating back thousands
of years. Khat contains a monoamine alkaloid
called cathinone, an amphetamine-like stimulant,
which is said to cause excitement, loss of
appetite, and euphoria. In 1980, the World Health
Organization (WHO) classified it as a drug of
abuse that can produce mild-to-moderate
psychological dependence (less than tobacco or
alcohol), although WHO does not consider khat to
be seriously addictive. The plant has been
targeted by anti-drug organisations such as the
DEA. It is a controlled substance in some
countries, such as the United States, Canada and
Germany, while its production, sale and
consumption are legal in other nations, including
Djibouti, Somalia, Ethiopia and Yemen.
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Amharic Ethiopia as a multi ethnic state is often
known as a mosaic of language and culture more
than 83 languages and 200 dialects are spoken
throughout the country. The alphabet have 119
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Traditional book binding utensils
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The official language of Ethiopia is Amharic
which is a Semitic language that is spoken by
about 27 million people. The other language that
is widely spoken in this country is the Oromo
language. It is spoken by about 30 of the
population
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In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful
(Muslim calligraphy)
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Traditional beehive
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Traditional clothes in Ethiopia are made from
traditional cloth called yahager lebs, meaning
clothes of the countryside, which is made of
cotton woven together in long strips. Men wear
pants and a knee- long shirt with a white collar,
and a sweater. Men and women both wear shawls
(scarf ) called Netela
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Ethiopia is the only country in Africa that has
its own language that can be used in both spoken
and written form. More than 83 languages are
spoken using about 200 different dialects
throughout Ethiopia.
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Most likely due to the high altitude of Ethiopia,
Ethiopians are known for being excellent long
distance runners
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Almost 70 of all of the mountains in Africa can
be found in Ethiopia. Addis Ababa, Ethiopias
capital city is also Africas diplomatic
capital. Ethiopia is as big as France and Spain
combined in square kilometers.
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Africa - for us still the unknown continent
possesses a several thousands of years old
culture. Expressed particularly in myths,
legends, fables, in songs and proverbs
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This scratch plow, or ard
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This scratch plow, or ard, stands at the center
of the agricultural system because of its
simplicity 
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The ard (or scratch plough) is a rudimentary
plough that is light, without a mouldboard,
symmetrical on either side of its line of draft,
and fitted with a symmetrical share that traces a
shallow furrow but does not invert the soil (as
opposed to a turnplough). For more than two
thousand years, Ethiopias ox-plow agricultural
system was the most efficient and innovative in
Africa, but has been afflicted in the recent past
by a series of crises famine, declining
productivity, and losses in biodiversity. 
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Ethiopians have many myths and legends. Some of
these include the following The Queen of Sheba
and Her Only Son Menyelek (I) The Creation Myth
In this myth, the creator god, Wak shuts a man in
a coffin on flat Earth, and then made fire rain
down. This formed mountains. Then he unearthed
the man, and he was alive. Soon, the man became
lonely so Wak took some of his blood and made a
woman for the man to marry. They had 30 children,
but the man was ashamed to have so many, so he
hid 15. Wak then turned those children into
animals and demons.
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Dula is an Amharic word for a stick or staff. It
can refer to any stick but in most cases it is
the humble walking stick that is used throughout
Ethiopia. The stick commonly called dula in
Ethiopia may have been the first tool after all.
Even today, the dula is still widely used to ward
off wild animals and ensure that humans can
travel from point A to point B without being
eaten alive by the clawed and fanged beasts of
the fields, forests, and savannas. The dula is
also used as a deterrent against strangers,
highway robbers and enemies. The lonely dula,
however, did not remain for long as a plain
regular stick. Like the staff of Moses, it has
branched and flowered into many types of
instruments and weapons. Hundreds of stick
varieties evolved from the simple and lonely
dula. It would be very difficult to include all
the various types of sticks, staff, rods, and
batons practiced by the eighty ethnic groups of
Ethiopia. The majority of the dulas are from the
main tribes of the Oromo, Amhara, Tigre and other
tribes. The Ethiopian stick is usually made from
hardwood or bamboo. It is fired or flamed to
further harden it and oiled to preserve the
integrity of the wood to prevent cracking. Dulas
are also made from cedar wood (tid), acacia
(grar), wild olive (weira), sycamore (warka),
vines (hareg) and bamboo (shembeko Kerkeha and
Reed). The most common term for sticks is dula.
The dula can be a walking stick, a guard's
zebegna stick, or any type of long well oiled and
flamed stick about four to five feet in length.
The term dula will therefore be used as a generic
word for stick in describing the dula stick
culture of Ethiopia.
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Text Internet Pictures Sanda Foisoreanu
Alin Samochis Sanda
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Presentation Sanda Foisoreanu
2014
Sound Alemayehu Eshete - Kehak
Atsewirugn