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through millet fields and field house |
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Finally we came to a ridge and then the trail went uphill again. At first we now passed through the jhum fields of Tanhai where the millet was already full of grain. In the midst of the millet we also saw several stalks which had bunches of larger grain. it was unfamiliar even to Mills. This kind of grain ripens first but is not much appreciated. It is cooked for the funeral meal, that is funeral sacrifice of a man who had died by drowning; 'apotia' death. In between the fields stand rather big field houses. Numerous burnt bamboo pipes stood along the path near to the entrance into the village. They had been used in spring at the genna associated with building the field huts. |
