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rites when finishing rice cutting |
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The weather is dreadful again and there is little to do. Shankok told me some things about finishing the rice cutting. A small piece of the field is left to the last. On it is a certain type of red rice. This he then cuts himself while his wife does the threshing. This rice is kept separately in an earthen pot in the rice granary. For the Ou-nie-bu the clan elder stamps a bit of this rice for the sacrifices which are tied to the house posts. Men are allowed to eat from it but not women as these, when they marry, leave the house and the rice would follow them. |
