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Soapstone Mining In Tabaka, Kenya
In the Kisii, Kenya, Kisii region in Kenya, soapstone is mined in the town of Tabaka. It has been at the heart of industry and culture, with its malleability allowing for the carving of a variety of items ranging from common household items to ornaments and other Interior design, décor items, all of which have found their way into the commercial space, birthing the aforementioned 'industry' around the mining and processing of the ore – largely centered in Tabaka. In its finely milled form, soapstone has been found to have various commercial uses outside carving. The stone's colour ranges from a light pink to a creamy white or a grey hue. It is mined and carved by hand by artisans. The carved figurines and sculptures are then decorated by engraving artistic designs on their surfaces, polished, waxed and dyed or they are left in their natural texture and colour. Geographical occurrence The Goti Chaki hills in Tabaka area -in South Mugirango Constituency, South Mugirango const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Person Hand-carving Carving Soapstone Trinket Box, Tabaka Hills, Kenya
A person (: people or persons, depending on context) is a being who has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal obligation, legal responsibility. The defining features of ''personhood'' and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about ''personal identity'' and ''self'': both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
