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.:. Halbi Fieldwork

Bhatpal village, Bastar District, MP India
1967-1978

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Ploughing the fields to prepare for rice planting.
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Ploughing the fields to prepare for rice planting.
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Ploughing a field to prepare for planting rice.
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Chingaru sowing rice - 1978
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The Potel is sowing dry rice seed

Halbis grow both dry and wet rice depending on the location of their fields.

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Weeding rice on a wet day

The rain hats are large enough to cover one's body as you weed. They're marvellous!

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Ramborti and others weeding in the flooded the rice field.
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Ramborti teaching Betsy how to weed rice. We weren't very good at it.
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Harvesting rice using hand sickles

Rice is laid in the field to dry and then gathered and taken to the threshying floor where it's stacked into rice stack to await threshing.

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Durga and Ramboti sweeping up threshed lentils; drying paddy in background c. 1968
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Stacking rice prior to threshing.
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Bondka and Budri beating out lentils c. 1968

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