page_title: Material culture of the Manasir
section_title: Garidah (جريدة)
hierarchical_section_title: Material culture of the Manasir / Garidah (جريدة)
caption_attribution_description: English: Qafas - chicken hutch from Garidah, Shiri Island, Dar al-Manasir, Northern Sudan (c) GFDL David Haberlah (Homepage of David Haberlah, david@haberlah.com) Commons:Category:Sudan Commons:Category:Chicken Commons:Category:Chicken coop
context_page_description: The material culture of the Manasir is very basic and primarily relies on the by-products of palm tree cultivation. Date trees not only constitute the main source of income and an important supply of nutrition in Dar al-Manasir, but the Manasir also make intelligent use of all different parts of the palm tree. From it they produce diverse household items, garden tools and building material for their traditional mud houses.
  What follows is a list of raw materials gathered from the date palm and the products that can be manufactured from them.
context_section_description: Garidah is the midrib part of the palm leaf. In order to be used as a raw material the Garidah is stripped of its leaflets and spikes and its broad petiole is removed. Garidat are an esteemed raw material for the production of robust containers and furniture.
  The Manasir use it to manufacture small boxes (Sunduq, صنضق) in which they carry vegetables to the weekly market at Suq Salamat (سوق سلمات).
  
  Additionally, Garidah is a good fencing material used for making small hutches called Qafas (قفص) to protect the chicken against wild animals. The Manasir also use it as roofing material to thatch their traditional mud houses (Galus, جالوص).
caption: Qafas (قفص)
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