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Highland farm house with thatch and metal roof by canal at Dong Ha
About this photograph
- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- May 1997
- Location
- Dong Ha, 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 14)
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A highland farm house with a thatch and corrugated metal roof is located by a canal at Dong Ha.
To the left of the main house is a thatched outbuilding, probably either a rice granery or a detached kitchen. Useful garden plants, including banana palms are planted in the yard around the house. Forested mountains cut by a high road and electric lines are visible in the background above the farm house.
Corrugated metal roofs are popular among some farmers in Southeast Asia because they are long lasting and fire resistant. They are, however, hotter, noisier, and much more expensive than thatch roofs, which generally cost nothing besides family labor.
