Gurage Injera Tray
Tribe: Gurage
Country: Ethiopia
Material: Wood, Pigment.
Size: 22.25" (56.5 cm)
Condition: Good, Some paint chipped off.
Injera, sometimes transliterated enjera or taita is a pancake-like bread made out of teff flour. It is traditionally eaten in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia (where it is also called laxoox and canjeero), Yemen, and by the Nuer people of Sudan. The meal is served on a communal tray. A very large platter is covered with Injera, overlapping to give a complete cover. Each separate dish is placed on the Injera. On the table there is another plate with several Injera rounds folded into quarters. To eat, one takes a hand sized piece of the bread, folds it around a portion of one of the dishes on the common tray, picks it up and eats. There are no utensils other than the bread. |
