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KAYAN WOMEN RESTING FROM WORK IN THEIR RICE FIELD |
PRETTY SHELL EMBROIDERY |
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| In Borneo both sexes share in the work of the paddy fields. At planting-time the men make the holes in the ground, into which the women drop the seed. While the crop is growing the women hoe over each patch at least twice to prevent weeds from choking the rice plants, and men and women reap the crop together, the children helping by scaring off the rice-sparrows | Sea Dayak women show great skill and taste in the designs which they trace in shells upon their short cotton skirts and long-bodied sleeved jackets |