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.:. Halbi Fieldwork

Bhatpal village, Bastar District, MP India
1967-1978

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Crushing sugar cane in the sugar cane press to extract juice

The buffalo just goes round and round for hours on end as long as there's cane to crush.

The setup for cooking the sugar cane juice.

Potel stirring sugar cane juice being cooked down into sugar c. 1968

Cooking the sugar cane juice

It is cooked for many hours until ready to be poured out into a hollowed out log for cooling before being formed into balls of raw sugar.

Cooking the sugar cane juice

Potel scraping cooling sugar off the sides of hollowed out log c. 1968

Chingaru's father laying out the balls of raw sugar, called 'gur', to dry.

Preparing the sugar cane cuttings for planting a new sugar cane field.

Durga and others planting sugar cane.

Watering the vegetable garden using a shadoof and watering channels dug throughout the garden.

Durga and friend guiding the water through the onion patch.

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