Harvesting : four women carrying baskets

B&W photographic print. 'The rice is reaped by the women, girls and elderly men, and taken in big baskets by the strong young men to the threshing floor. The threshed rice is then carried in 80 lb loads, as shown here, up to the granary.'


Date(s) of creation: 1919-1920
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004547
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections

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