Although Bassar smiths live in the heart of a region renowned for the high volume of its iron production-amongst the most important ones in the continent-before colonial times, and can thus abundantly use from this material, they opted for an equipment mostly made of stone. The acquisition process of these tools, taken from nature and hardly transf...
In Northern Togo, among the different smithy techniques present during the precolonial period in this zone, known for its production of iron, emerges a set of communities of blacksmiths characterized by a massive use of stone tools. Among these, the group of Binaparba, in the eastern part of the Bassar region, is probably the one that has elaborate...
Au Nord-Togo, parmi les différentes techniques de forge qui ont coexisté durant la période précoloniale au sein de cette zone connue pour l’importance de sa production métallurgique, on distingue un ensemble de communautés de forgerons que caractérise un usage massif d’outils de pierre. Parmi elles, le groupe de Binaparba, situé à l’est du pays bas...
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