Further Reading
about Borana milk containers and material culture
  • Bassi, Marco. "Every Woman an Artist: Milk Containers in Borana." In Ethiopia: Traditions of Creativity, edited by R. Silverman, pp. 64-87, 258. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.
  • Dahl, Gudrun. “Mats and Milk Pots: The Domain of Borana Women.” In The Creative Communion. African Folk Models of Fertility and the Regeneration of Life, ed. A. Jacobson-Widding and Walter van Beek, pp. 129-36. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1990.
  • Hassen, Mohammed. The Oromo of Ethiopia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
  • Kassam, A., and G. Megerssa. "Iron and Beads: Male and Female Symbols of Creation. A Study of Ornament Among Booran Oromo." In The Meaning of Things, edited by Ian Hodder, 23-32. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989.
  • Megerssa, Gemetchu, and Aneesa Kassam. "Sticks, Self, and Society in Booran Oromo: A Symbolic Interpretation." In African Material Culture, edited by Mary Jo Arnoldi, Christraud M. Geary, and Kris L. Hardin, 145-66. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
  • Prussin, Labelle. "Gabra Containers," African Arts 20 (2) 1987: 36-45, 81-82.

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