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Rice farm on outskirts of capital, Antananarivo.
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Rice farm on outskirts of capital, Antananarivo.
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Antananarivo
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Rice fields and rural housing of central highlands
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Cultivated silk cocoons drying
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Wild silk cocoons in various stages of preparation
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Weaver modeling one of her silk shawls
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Stacking wild cocoons to prepare for boiling
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Stacking wild cocoons to prepare for boiling
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Family of weavers/rice farmers
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Mother (weaver/rice farmer) and her child
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70 year old weaver Ramalene gestures towards her son, who lives in one of the two houses she built with proceeds from only 3 days of sales at the Santa Fe Folk Art Market
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Ramalene's granddaughters
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Menja and her silk thread
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Weaver Menja and Peace Corps volunteer Natalie react to my question about Natalie's imminent departure
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Weaver's daughters, future leaders
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Weaver's daughters, future leaders
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Weaver preparing silk thread
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Family tomb that will opened for Famadihana ("turning of the bones") and a corpse taking into the sunlight for 4-5 days of celebration
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Central highlands
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Peace Corps worker Natalie using cardboard video camera David Evans had them make to prepare the weavers for his camera crew's arrival
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Mural map painted by Peace Corps worker in his village
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An ox cart travels past a stone memorial
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Rice fields and rural housing of central highlands
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70 year old Ramalene dries her day's rice harvest
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Rice fields, central highlands
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Weavers Filbertine and Prisca take cocoons to river for washing. The women are from different tribes and belonging to the same weaving cooperative lessens those tensions.
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Washing laundry in the rice fields
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Boys beat harvested rice on wooden drum to separate rice kernels from stalk
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Weavers turning wild cocoons into silk thread using drop spindles
