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Agriculture--Japan--Okinawa-ken;Okinawa Island (Japan);Banana;Sweet potatoes

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

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Small sinkhole with sweet potatoes and banana tree hedge, July 20, 1947

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: G-148
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Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Small sinkhole in landscape of Reddish-Brown Lateritic soils from limestone, a few miles south of Ishikawa, which has been widened by Okinawans to provide more land for cultivation. Sweet potatoes on Alluvial soil and on upland, banana hedge near hut, sumac at edge."

Dates: July 20, 1947