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tool for scraping ginger, daos by the bedside |
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In one house Mills discovered a tool for scraping ginger. It is made of a thick piece of rattan with its rough prickly surface partly left in tact and used as a scrape board. Here too one finds the practical custom of putting a dao up vertically in a bamboo stand next to the bed so that the owner has it ready to hand in the case of a raid. In the afternoon we get mail from Mokokchung and I wrote two letters which will go off tomorrow. In the evening it rained and now a strong wind is blowing. |
