Images below: "Rather primitive methods of transporting water from the low "paddy" or rice fields to the higher ones by means of endless chains of bamboo cups and treadles."





Below: "These fellows seem happy enough even though they treadle for hours on end."



Below: "The old fashioned way of fishing. The net is lowered on spread bamboos and then hauled up by pulling down on the (back?)."



Below: "Gathering in a rice crop."



Below: "How's this for a prize one?"



Below: "A transport which is moved by carrying it."



Below: "Threshing the rice by hand. Machinery is unknown to these people."





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