The wooden baskets pictured here are what the women used to carry the grain from the field or from the storage areas in their compound. The Yabus River provides a good opportunity to wash clothes in the southern portion of Blue Nile. Washing clothes in the northern portion of Blue Nile requires the use of precious well water. Women must first pound the sorghum grain in order to loosen the grain from the chaff before threshing it.
Water is life in the Blue Nile.
Girls and women spend a good portion of each day going to get water from the well or river. All copyrighted material belongs to its respective owners, and is provided solely for educational purposes of the reader.