cover image: Men making mud bricks for a self-help community center in Kaputa village

Men making mud bricks for a self-help community center in Kaputa village

1976

The process is simple but laborious. Specific types of soil with properties that lend themselves to being mixed with water and some straw and baked in the sun, must be located, processed, set into wooden molds and left to harden in the sun. 6840-05 Kasaba Bay / Friends at Kasama / Chikoye Performers and Fishing Mweru Wantipa, etc. Airshots over Kenya 1976
zambia development workers building materials photography rural areas mud tabwa culture kaputa district, northern province, zambia brick (clay product) sun-dried brick brickmaking

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Cancel, Robert

Collection
Zambian Storytellers
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Kaputa District, Northern Province, Zambia Zambia
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Zambia
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