Food processing: pounding yam

  • John & Penny Hubley
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Food processing: pounding yam. John & Penny Hubley. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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These Nigerian women are pounding dried yam with pestles and mortars. This milling process grinds the yam tubers into flour. Pounding is labour intensive, but is also a social event, with women from different villages working together.

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