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visit to Tseminyu and Tesophenyu |
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In Tseminyu I watched a Rengma blacksmith heating iron and then hammering it into the shape of a dao. (39) The bellows are quite distinct from Asur and Agaria ones. The twyers (sic) connect with two wooden cylinders three feet high. Each of these contains a skin bag from which a tall handle sticks. Behind the cylinder is a bench. A boy then squats with his feet on the cylinders and his buttocks on the back and works the handle up and down like pistons. |
