Chenchus digging for food

These Chenchu men are using a digging stick, a shaft of bamboo or wood into which an iron point has been driven or is attached. Tubers were often dug up this way. In the background we see a simple grass-hut, which was built when Chenchus temporarily moved their settlement to avoid the heat or to get...

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Full title: Chenchus digging for food [electronic resource].
Format: Photo           
Language: English
Published: [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1940.
Series: SOAS Digital Library.
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