Chookeet/Store

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Sabaot people are great people. Long time ago they gave proper names to everything they discovered or invented. Today let's look at food stores.

Kiteriit:
This is a small store made of twigs and has a curved base. This is where you got the name granary.

When making such a construction, it is first made over a T point with long easily twistable twigs and additional ones added as it expands. It can accommodate up to 3 sacks maize or other cereals.

Chookeet:
This is a large storage facility for storing grains. From 5 sacks to up to 50 bags of cereals can be accommodated by it.

This kind of store is build by staking light long post to the ground then either intertwined with split bamboo or good twigs. It can be done up to 2m high but the base is overlaid with horizontal bars or posts from one wall to the other. To secure its strength, the overlaid posts protrude slightly beyond the walls.

It is also supported by strategically positioned strong posts to support it. On these post at the top is where the rail or lintel would be in order to shoulder the roof.

Moontiit: this is a a form of a large basket that can accommodate up to 1 sack of cereals. It was usually made by weaving specially split bamboo, palm trees strips or reeds depending on location.

Tobootiit: this is a storage place raised above the fireplace with strong staves fastened and supported by the roof. Mostly it is made by two pillars on the inside of the kitchen rising up to the level of the lintel. Two poles would be linked to the post on the inside at the fireplace and fastened with strong ropes.

The ropes are derived from peeling tender twigs of rope trees known "sinkoroweet or borookap ko". This necessitate the overlay of light split wood to form a shelf on the elevation of the rail or lintel. The overlay was fastened with the ropes to strengthen it. The upper part towards the roof is the Tobootiit.

The shelf was sometimes split into two so as to serve as a store for foodstuffs and basically firewood.

Which other do you recall?

By Selyenyi Massay

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