Basket Trap Making Oral History in Swahili and Ndengereko

An audio recording introduces Mzee Ndile and Mzee Kulenga, who name and discuss the type of fishing trap they will be making for the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme. The 13.6 MB WAV file was authored by Marie-Annick Moreau and is licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0. It was last updated on June 3, 2026.

Use Cases

• Linguistic analysis of fishing and craft terminology based on the Swahili and Ndengereko terms mentioned.
• Study of oral history preservation methods based on the recorded expert introductions.
• Documentation of traditional ecological knowledge based on the described basket trap making process.
• Analysis of language use in indigenous knowledge transmission based on the bilingual recording.

Strengths

• Contains primary source audio recordings of expert knowledge holders.
• Explicitly documents terms in two languages: Swahili and Ndengereko.
• Associated with a specific research initiative: the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Marie-Annick Moreau.

Collection Method

Likely recorded oral interviews or demonstrations.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 12:11:36; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely Tanzania or the Swahili/Ndengereko-speaking region.