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Highland man sawing board with hand tools outside house in Mai Chau
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 18)
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A highland man wearing just shorts uses a large frame saw to cut a board outside an elevated wood house in Mai Chau. The man braces the board with one foot against the top of his handmade work bench. A hammer rests on the bench in the foreground. Wooden stairs and pillars supporting an elevated wood house are seen in the rear.
In highland regions of Southeast Asia, most men learn the carpentry skills to build their own homes of wood or other plant materials. Generally, they work with hand tools, using no electricity. Metal parts, generally now imported from the cities, are either forged in the village or bought pre-made from blacksmiths in larger towns.
