Equipment

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

Everything

Illustrated cutaway of an Omani tannur, showing an earth-dug pit with irregular stone lining and a wood fire below ground.
Built structures

Shuwa pit (Oman)

Omani Shuwa uses a ground-built Tannur: a stone-lined pit heated with wood, where palm-fiber parcels are lowered for long cooking. Sources do not establish one measured design.

Pits and cavities
Oman
An irregular goat-skin churn hangs by its cord from a plain tripod, illustrated on warm ivory paper.
Equipment

Suspended goatskin churn

A flexible goat-skin bag from Dhofar hangs by a long cord and is rocked to churn milk or buttermilk. The British Museum records one 1970s specimen; churning is mechanical separation, not proof that the milk fermented.

Churns, agitators and drums
Tawi Ateer, Jabal Qara
Photorealistic editorial image of a woven palm khasfah holding banana-leaf-wrapped shuwa bundles.
Equipment

Khasfah (woven palm container for shuwa)

A khasfah is a woven palm container for leaf-wrapped marinated meat as it is lowered into the heated underground oven for Omani shuwa. At Al Kharasen near Nizwa, a documented communal oven receives hundreds of family bundles.

Bags, sacks and casings
Oman