Equipment

626 sourced equipment pages: vessels, tools, appliances and built structures.

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Photograph of Indirect solar collector and drying cupboard.
Equipment

Indirect solar collector and drying cupboard

A solar air collector that heats air separately, then passes it through a shaded tray cupboard and out of a chimney. The product never sits in direct sunlight.

Drying kilns and dryers
Sudan
Illustration of an empty pear-shaped Borana gorfa, hand-woven from plant fiber, with a lid and cowrie-shell bands following one museum specimen.
Equipment

Gorfa (Borana woven milk vessel)

The Borana gorfa is a pear-shaped milk vessel used in southern Ethiopia to sour milk and churn it into butter. Sources document woven fiber and smoke treatment; one museum specimen also records gourd and cowrie-shell materials.

woven-liquid-vessel
Borana pastoral area
An interpretive watercolor-pencil cutaway of a wooden haybox, showing a lidded cooking pot surrounded by insulating packing and a padded lid on warm ivory paper.
Equipment

Haybox (fireless cooker)

A haybox, also called a fireless or retained-heat cooker, is an insulated enclosure that lets a lidded pot finish cooking in heat already stored in the food after it leaves a stove. It generates no heat and is not a preservation method.

Retained-heat cookers
France
Illustration of a timber indirect solar dryer: a glazed collector warms air that rises through food trays in a separate cabinet.
Equipment

Indirect solar dryer

An indirect solar dryer heats air in a separate collector, then moves it through a covered food chamber. Designs vary in size, materials and airflow.

Drying kilns and dryers
Uganda
Historical watercolor and pencil illustration of one empty, decorated Kalenjin/Kipsigis sotet gourd, shown as a photographed regional variant.
Equipment

Smoked milk gourd

A dried gourd used in documented Kalenjin and Nandi practices to hold and serve mursik. Sources describe different ways to prepare its interior, so sotet is a family of locally shaped vessels rather than one standard design or treatment.

Gourds, calabashes and carved bowls
Nandi County