Mayotte
During the dry season, the Mama Shingo, or women who produce salt, harvest silt from the mangrove swamps and then put it through a process of filtration, evaporation and drying to produce up thirty kilograms of salt per day in their metal pans. Their traditional practice originated in the Bantu world and is one of the techniques used by the Thonga people in Mozambique. They call salt munyu, a term used for salt in the Comoro Islands. Although no longer used for commercial salt production, this traditional craft is preserved in a museum and in a festival celebrated on Mayotte.
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