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Woman wearing headscarf and shoulder basket walks in Mai Chau rice field
About this photograph
- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- May 1997
- Location
- Mai Chau, Vietnam
- License
- This photograph copyright ©1997. Terms of use
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- Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam: Photographs and text tell the story of rice and rural life in Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on the highlanders, or Montagnards. (Page 6)
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A highland woman wearing a headscarf and shouldering a large basket walks in an unripe wet-rice field in Mai Chau. The view is taken from behind the walking woman who appears to wear shorts or a short skirt. Mountains and some houses are barely visible in the background.
As an alternative to a traditional palm-leaf sunhat, Southeast Asian farmers often wrap long cloths over their hair to protect their heads and necks from dust and rays of the tropical sun.
