leatherworker

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• Their husbands are griots (jell, dyeli) whose sense of identity today is tied as much to the artistry of their potter wives as to their more distant heritage as oral artists and leatherworkers.

  Academic text (2007)

• What I have found is that the association of griots, and specifically of Dyula-speaking griot-leatherworkers with potters, is more widespread than I had previously realized.

  Academic text (2007)

• In 1976, the mask was performed for me only by girls from a leatherworker's household who were members of the girls' age grade.

  Academic text (1998)

• For example, if you decide to power level that engineer or leatherworker, you have a choice: either pay now, or choose to wait a few weeks and level your profession when the mats go down in price.

  Blog text (3)

• Think of it this way: you can farm 30 stacks of leather in week one and use it to level your leatherworker partway to the new cap.

  Blog text (3)

• Indeed, there is also evidence of male Mande griots and/or leatherworkers connected with female pottery production.

  Academic text (2007)

• I think I can dig up some leatherworkers to turn out some good sets of bellows for the works." Andrew sat back, smiling and nodding his agreement, and the various officers started to talk excitedly among themselves.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Given the patterns of connection suggested by my mapping of object types and technological styles, I have more recently turned my attention to looking for communities of Mande-speaking leatherworkers and griots associated with pottery production east and south of the Folona.

  Academic text (2007)

• Some of the young women from those communities, believed to be of the leatherworkers caste, then brought the kurukupaa with them as a children's mask when they married men in non-Muslim Mandinka villages.

  Academic text (1998)

• Formerly, all men (with the exception of smiths, leatherworkers, and griots) were obliged to make a payment of grain to the elders at the head of the village in order to gain the right to approach and dance with masks and to have masks dance at their post-burial rites.

  Academic text (2005)

Synonyms

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vsleatherworker

• Indian

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A person who works with leather, for example making shoes

focuses on making, repairing, or crafting leather items rather than tanning

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