0674 Sunrise on the women's drum tower and the western section of the village. ***Explanation*** |
2204 Early morning on main road in the village. ***Explanation*** |
2225 Dog's eye view. |
2569 Children at the door of the new drum tower. |
3062 Taking little brother home. |
2528 The only road to the community ends .25km from here. |
0538 Intergenerational learning in the new drum tower. |
3586 Older drum tower in the central area of Gaoxiu. As seen in image #2225. |
0129 Kam child. |
2341 Offering to the ancestors at the time of the new rice festival. |
2487 Cunninghamia branches to be used as firewood. |
0667 Butchering a pig. |
0463 Looking at northern section of village across rice paddies. |
3105 Morning fire. |
2720 Northern section of Gao Xiu Village. |
5228 Grandmother and grandson. |
1484 Drum tower. |
2492 Central drum tower. |
0364 Sewing clothes and teaching the young. |
2622 Brother and sister. |
2945 Looking north in the morning with the new drum tower in the distance. |
3925 View of women's drum tower looking to the west from the nearby mountain. |
4100 Plant used protection of a home. |
0198 Looking down on fish ponds and rice paddies. |
0435 There is always work but there is always time for cards. |
0205 Ascending to the south of Goaxiu Village. |
4138 Forage for animals. |
0318 Rice paddies south east of the village. |
3897 Garrrison wall. ***Explanation*** |
3915 Double wall that surrounded the village. |
4125 Forage for animals. |
0635 Out for a stroll. |
IMG_3446-Every evening people are reminded by this sound to prevent a fire. |
2950 Looking north from hilltop south of the village. |
0389 Southeast section of the village looking towards the southeast. |
1217 Typical brick chimney and fired clay tile roof. |
4422 Traditional construction methods. |
2898 A type of adobe is used for the first floor of this dwelling. |
2573 Cunninghamia bark being taken for drying. |
2575 A vine is often used to bundle and secure the bark. |
3644 Carrying Cunninghamia bark to be dried. |
0262 Drying of Cunninghamia bark. ***Explanation*** |
5207 Terracing rice paddies and Cunninghamia. |
0284 Automatic sharpener used for the saw in a small local lumber mill. |
0286 Waiting while the saw blade is being sharpened. |
1199 Ancient sacred yew tree. Taxus wellichiana |
3510 Ancient sacred yew tree. Taxus wellichiana |
3511 Hoops of bamboo and paper used at the sacred yew tree. |
2512 Feed for animals. |
2925 Corn is often hung from a home for luck. |
3467 Examing a plant in the field with a local Kam plant expert Yang Chang Jun. |
3475 Field botany with Yang Chang Jun. Large monocot used for healing of broken bones. |
0329 Examining plant specimens. |
3469 Ethnobotanical field collecting with plant expert Yang Chang Jun. Tagging and scale for later identification. |
3514 Taro and palm. |
2710 Palm rain cape and bamboo hat hanging on side of home. |
4135 Baengx tinder for starting fire and used when lighting tobacco in a pipe. ***Explanation*** |
1080 Socializing while smoking pipes in a very old drum tower. |
0196 Growing tobacco for local use. |
2792 Fired clay pipe bowl. |
2990 Traditional pipe and tobacco case. ***Explanation*** |
2787 Kam elder with traditional pipe. |
3681 Kam elder smoking a traditional bamboo pipe with ceramic bowl. |
5210 Using the stem of a fern. |
3702 Kam elder man with traditional long pipe with horn tobacco container. ***Explantion*** |
0195 Tea tree fruit. Tea seed oil is made from the seed of this fruit. |
5421 Storing tea seed oil. ***Explanation*** |
0379 Old drum tower with fire pit. |
1061 Child sleeping in a drum tower. |
0383 Old drum tower in south east section of village. |
0409 Beam construction in the new drum tower. ***Explanation*** |
3531 Planing the last few planks used in the construction of the new drum tower. |
0576 Women practice singing and dancing. |
0410 Decoration and open beam construction. |
4186 Relaxing in the new drum tower before the celebrations. |
0526 Hammering in the last tenon to hang the door in the new drum tower. ***Explanatiion*** |
0547 Playing the lushen for the completion of the new drum tower. ***Explanation*** |
2557 Looking up in new drum tower. |
2824 Playing the lusheng in the new drum tower. |
0300 Looking up and west at the inside beams of the new drum tower. |
4201 Young Kam girl in the new drum tower. |
2832 Group of lusheng players inside of new drum tower. |
2825 Playiing the lusheng in the new drum tower. |
2838 Lusheng players for dedication of new drum tower. |
0558 Playing of the lusheng for the celebration of the new drum tower. |
0415 Open beams and decoration. |
4174 Playing a traditional instrument and entertaining the some of the village youth. |
0411 Resting, relaxing and contemplating the upcoming celebration. |
5238 Looking up at pegs in the new drum tower. ***Explanation*** |
3026 Hauling a pig for butchering by the water. |
3042 Washing a slaughtered pig by the village stream. |
3038 Scraping the hair from a pig in during the butchering process. |
2513 Off hours for the second butcher. |
3072 Butchering pig and preparing intestines. ***Explanation*** |
3029 Outdoor butcher shop. |
0621 The new drum tower as the sun was going down. ***Explanation of the Drum Tower*** |
2359 Playing the lusheng. |
2577 A veiw of the new drum tower. |
3170 Adjusting and securing traditional silver Kam headdress. |
3174 The final adjustments are made to the Kam headdress. ***Explanation*** |
3182 Young Kam woman's headdress being placed for drum tower dedication. |
3187 The silver headdress, neckshield and silver jewelry correctly placed and ready. |
3193 Traditional Kam clothes and silver jewelry. |
3197 Traditional ceremonial dress. |
3186 Young Kam woman with traditional headdress for the new drum tower celebration. |
3165 Cleaning fish from the local ponds for the drum tower celebration. |
3254 Cooking the large carp from the local ponds in preparation for the days celebration. |
3255 Pickled fish, a Kam traditional food. ***Explanation*** |
4164 Taking prepared rice for new drum tower dedication. *** Information on the wind rain bridge.*** |
3208 Glutinous rice brought for the dedication of the new drum tower. ***Explanation*** |
3225 Procession to the new drum tower for its dedication. |
3200 Contributions of money and rice for the new drum tower. |
3230 As people arrive for the dedication, fireworks are lit in mass. |
0531 After the firecrackers. |
0842 Inauguration day of the new drum tower. |
0820 Celebration day and Dr. Eisenberg. |
3420 Fireworks display at new drum tower dedication. ***Explanation*** |
3922 Looking to the west with the new drum tower in the distance. |
0188 Diving masks made of used truck inner tubes. |
0255 A fish pond surrounded by rice paddies. |
0270 Pesticides for sale at a local store. |
3482 Order: Orthoptera |
2585 Pesticide bottle in the main local stream. |
0944 Order: Orthoptera |
5364 Unidentified caterpillar on rice leaf. |
5208 Dry chemical pesticide that is mixed with water and liquid insecticide. |
0990 Order: Arachnida |
3975 Caterpillar Order: Lepidoptera. |
2227 Child by the central drum tower. |
3121 Garbage being swept into community stream. ***Explanation*** |
0273 Washing clothes in the main stream of Gaoxiu. |
0501 Dumping garbage into the village stream. |
0503 Floating trash. |
3949 Pollution from detergents. ***Explanation*** |
2803 Washing clothes and hair in the village stream. |
0400 Aerating a pond. |
1307 Dragging plant cuttings that will be fed to fish. |
3152 A water plant used to provide shade for fish, which are approximately 3 to 4cm across. |
0482 The gathering of stream plants to feed the fish in the ponds. |
0368 Fish ponds. |
2735 Gathering of stream plants for fish feed. |
2737 A renewable and plentiful fish feed. |
3137 Feeding fish in pond using stream vegitation. |
0626 Two different types of grass fed to fish. |
3056 Little goes to waste. Cutting grass between rice fields to be fed to fish. |
0921 Grass eating carp. |
1048 Fish pond with grass cutting on the right and corn leaves and husks on the left. |
1049 Corn husks and grass fish feed. |
0884 Liquid fertilizer. |
0940 Class: Diptera |
0950 Order: Odonata a blue dragonfly. |
1050 Cleaning the bamboo filter that keeps fish in the paddy. |
0962 Order: Coleoptera |
1120 Sweeping up dried rice. ***Explanation*** |
0331 Carrying rice to be cleaned and hulled. |
0420 Cleaning the rice of loose hulls and foreign matter. ***Explanation*** |
1189 Bagging the rice for later use. |
0724 Rice to be hulled. |
0718 Rice hulling. |
2647 Rice after being hulled. ***Explanation*** |
0728 Rice bagged and ready for storage. |
2377 Pole used to carry heavy loads across the shoulder. Wood or metal buckets are often used with the hooks. |
2378 One of two hooks used when hauling heavy objects across the shoulder. As seen in 0728. |
3460 Spreading liquid fertilizer. |
3518 An expansive rice paddy with a fish nest in foreground. |
3653 Outlet of rice paddy with fish guard in place. ***Explanation*** |
3496 Yang Chang Jun treating Dr. Eisenberg for a poison ivy like reaction. |
4241 Wu Shun Jun demonstrating and discussing herbal medicine. ***Explanation*** |
4268 Wu Shun Jun using accupressure on Dengtao. ***Explanation*** |
4274 Wu Shun Jun discussing herbal plants with Dr. Eisenberg and Dengtao. |
3561 Order: Coleoptera |
4363 unidentified cocoon. |
3988 Order: Arachnida |
5390 Order: Odonata |
5395 Utricularia found in pond in the northeast section of the village. ***Explanation*** |
0293 Village elder making netting. |
1210 Young girl netting fish. |
2543 From start to finish everything is grown and made here for hand held fish net. |
1212 Young girl netting fish in the main village steam. |
2538 Hands that make the fish net. Local cotton is used. |
1202 No stream is too small. This young boy works for hours to catch fish for his family. |
2540 Years of experience making fish nets. |
1218 Looking east at the village and a drum tower. |
3582 Casting a weighted net for the small steam fish. |
3572 Casting a net in the main village stream. |
3573 As the net descends. |
2209 Cast net. |
3575 Checking for fish after casting net. |
3820 Outlet of a rice paddy with a fish guard in place. |
3939 Glutinous or sticky rice has more than one purpose. |
0928 Praying mantis egg case. |
0982 Order: Arachnida |
3548 Order: Arachnida and Orthoptera |
3945 Intercropping mung beans and rice. ***Explanation*** |
1549 Clearcut north of Gauxiu 10 kilometers. |
1554 Clear-cut contrast with unharvested forest. A stark difference. |
2309 Kam farm north of Gaoxiu 5kms, contrasting rice fields and fish ponds. |
0119 Kam female elder. |
0228 Family. |
0235 Kam elder. |
0271 Young boy loading bricks that he will haul to a construction site. |
0429 Home and store with rice drying. ***Explanation*** |
0583 Common construction for a pigpen. |
0457 One of the village carpenters making stools. Local industry. |
0470 Local industry. |
2506 Cement blocks. Local industry. ***Explanation*** |
0683 |
0684 Village center. |
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1027 Early morning and friends meet. |
1107 Women elders enjoying each other's company. |
1224 Young Kam girl in traditional clothes. |
1283 Kam girls and elder in traditonal clothes. |
1293 Kam girls. |
2193 The warp. ***Explanation*** |
2191 Using a warp. Please read 2193 |
2196 Using the warp. Please read 2193 |
2200 Using a warp. Please read 2193 |
2216 Sewing and watching her grandchild. |
2350 Tall glutinous rice stock. Glutinous rice is the most prized among the Kam people. |
2383 Saw. |
2393 Baskets used for chicken at night. |
2424 Waterwheel north by 5 km in Hunan Province. |
2509 Sunrise across the roofs of the village. |
2619 Holding a laugh. |
2625 Washing, bathing and playing in the village stream. |
2651 Typical carrying method of this multiple use cutting tool. |
2712 The drying of corn. |
2741 Cutting the days firewood needs. |
2777 No glasses needed. Intricate sewing. |
2883 Rice water hair conditioner. |
2943 Village graveyard in the northeast section of the village. |
2965 Vat used for making rice wine. |
3077 Kam child near outdoor butcher. |
3535 Hauling firewood of Cunninghamia limbs through the wind rain bridge near new drum tower. |
3541 Sleeping child on wind rain bridge at north section of village close to the new drum tower. |
3658 Kam grandmother and grandchildren in front of their home. |
3689 Two Kam elder woman visiting. |
3719 Female Kam elder. |
3733 Female Kam elder. |
4016 This Kam girl always seemed to be happy and smiling. |
4041 Kam woman talking from a second story window. |
4161 .5 kilometers north of main village. |
4191 In the new drum tower Kam farmers receiving payment of refunded farm tax from local official. |
4336 Boys playing checkers. |
4417 Kam elder relaxing and smoking his pipe. |
4429 Two Kam men and boy relaxing in central section of village. |
4439 Bringing in limbs for firewood in main section of village. |
0650 Cat by the door. |
0589 Kam elder. |
0629 People enjoy each other's company. ***Explanation*** |
0354 Mother and child with a neurological abnormality. |
0505 Intergenerational teaching. |
0372 Emptying one of the many local small spring's reservoir. |
0115 Dried beans and locally used hats. |
2417 Soybean mill for making soy milk. |
2280 Eggplant often cooked with green beans is very popular. |
2278 Peppers and tomatoes. The tomatoes are often cooked with eggs and the peppers are used with many foods. |
2271 Fresh bamboo shoots trimmed that will be sliced and cooked. |
0653 Local butcher and a place to socialize. |
2323 Wind rain bridge counterbalance construction. ***Explanation*** |
2353 Bottom of a winnowing basket used for rice and general use. |
Musella lasiocarpa |
Musella lasiocarpa |
Sewing. Remote village, China. 2809 |
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