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Thao women pounding millet

NCL Special Collection / 4610 / (N/A) / About 1920s / 《Faces of the Century (Part II)》

n the photo, the bundles of millet on the ground and the roof were probably put there to be dried by the sun. On the lower part of the photo there is a child with a pestle. The mortars of the Thao are different from those used by the Atayal people, and are more similar to those used by the Tsou people.