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Working with animals: In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 7; In addition to providing labor, water buffalo also sometimes are eaten at major community feasts. Traditionally, buffalo were a major source of wealth for Southeast Asian families. They still are favored in highland wet-rice areas where neither humans not...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Assiniboine hunting buffalo: Paul Kane's circa 1851-1856 painting depicts two Plains Indians on horseback hunting a buffalo. The introduction of horses by Spanish settlers changed the way Plains Indians hunted, allowing them to overtake buffalo by speed.; Format: image/painting

Close-up view of the front half of a water buffalo at Mai Chau: A water buffalo tethered at Mai Chau village is seen in a close-up view of his head and front legs. A locally-made fiber harness is tied around the buffalo's head and large horns. Water buffalo are mostly gentle creatures used to pull plows and turn soil in...; Format: image/photograph

Water buffalo from Taj in Agra, India: These are water buffalo from Taj in Agra, India. There are probably about fifteen of them wading, some of them up to their necks. There is also a boy wading beside them. He is pushing on one of them, and appears to be trying to coax it to move downstream....; Format: image/photograph

Buffalo on a river bank in Annapurna: A buffalo rests on a river bank beneath Himalayan peaks in the Annapurna region of western Nepal. Buffalo provide milk and meat, and are used for plowing farmland. On the far side of the river we can see the terraced fields that are often found in the mountain...; Format: image/photograph

Highland woman walks buffalo past girl doing washing in rice fields at Mai Chau: A highland woman wearing a conical sunhat walks a buffalo past a girl doing washing in wet-rice fields at Mai Chau. The woman, who wears a long dark skirt and T-shirt, leads the buffalo along an earthern dyke that separates rice fields and helps them retain...; Format: image/photograph

Women working: In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 21; The bright green rice plants in the field are still young and unripe. Note, again, the power lines running in the background.; By Lorraine Aragon.

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.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

Woman leading buffalo past a girl doing laundry in wet-rice field at Mai Chau: A highland woman walks a water buffalo along a dyke in a wet-rice field at Mai Chau. She passes a girl who is squatting to do washing in a water stream running by the field. The bright green rice plants in the field are still young and unripe.; Format: image/photograph

A person in a sunhat walks a water buffalo by wet-rice fields in Mai Chau: A person in a sunhat walks a water buffalo by wet-rice fields in Mai Chau. The farmer and young buffalo are walking on earthen dykes constructed both as dry paths and as walls to contain standing water needed by the rice plants during certain stages of their...; Format: image/photograph

Wet rice in the highlands: In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 3; This photograph, and most of the photos that follow, was taken in Mai Chau, in the highlands of northwestern Vietnam. In most of Southeast Asia, the highlands are too dry or steep to construct the standing water pools required to nourish wet rice. Therefore,...; By Lorraine Aragon.

John Lawson animal illustration: John Lawson's drawings of animals native to the Carolinas, originally included in his 1709 book A New Voyage to Carolina; Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of That Country: Together with the Present State Thereof....; Format: image/illustration

Detail of men and boy leading two buffaloes (Thai Ramayana mural): This detail of a Ramayana mural painting at the Emerald Buddha Temple shows two men and a boy traveling with two water buffaloes. The two men lead their buffaloes past each other in opposite directions. A boy carrying a herding stick sits on top of the buffalo...; Format: image/photograph

The transformer room: In A technological tour of the Biltmore Estate, page 11; Interpreting the transformer room Wires come through the wall from the Generator Room which originally carried the power from the Dynamo Room to the Transformer Room. This room first was used to house a series of large Gould storage batteries,...; By Sue Clark McKendree.

Powder horns: At a replica of an eighteenth-century Indian trading camp on North Carolina's western frontier, three powder horns hang from a post. Powder horns were hollowed-out cow or buffalo horns, used to hold gun powder for loading muskets and other firearms.; Format: image/photograph

Moving the lighthouse: In Natural and human impacts on the northern Outer Banks, page 21; After the construction of the groins, the National Park Service continued to protect the lighthouse beach with extensive sandbagging efforts, but an October storm in 1970 wiped out the sandbags. Replenishment projects followed in 1971 and 1973 on the north...; By Blair Tormey and Dirk Frankenberg.

Seeing two poems: This lesson will teach students how to actively read a poem and identify poetic devices.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts); By Karyn A. Gloden.

Buffaloes at the water collection tank: Buffalo wallow in a hillside tank while three young children look after them. Water is a very precious resource in the mountains and people harvest it by building collection tanks such as this one. These tanks are often community-owned and villagers contribute...; Format: image/photograph

Vietnam Mekong Delta tour: The process of growing, harvesting rice: This was recorded as part of a multi-day Mekong Delta tour that started in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) and finished in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It is a unique experience to cross the border over water rather than overland. We were amongst the first groups...; Format: audio

Tourism poster showing three women in Vietnamese women's national dress: This tourism promotion poster includes a diagonally set image of three young women wearing a formal version of Vietnamese national dress. Vietnamese national women's dress includes a long, high-necked silk tunic that is slit at the sides to the waist. Here...; Format: image/photograph

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