Turning Omu into bilum string

last edited Jan. 31, 2023, 10:05 a.m. by Steve

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During Interviews about bilums the process of making string from omu came up. These questions followed up a bit

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Kavaluku - making bilum string
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Jereme - making string
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Uwasi - bilum string
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(we get omu for string. We get the skin of it, pick the strands and scrape the water off with a knife and we put it in the sun to dry. Once it's dry we break it. We get the small pieces and work with it (rolling I guess)) (for rope we get aganem. We make it into rope and make bags. We also make bags from omu. We get the omu strands, get rid of the water with a knife, then we hit it with a stick and put it in the sun when it's dry we split it up and make rope with the strands and we make bilums from it. When finished we leave some as is and dye some red)