Agriculture--Japan--Okinawa-ken;Agricultural laborers–Okinawa
Topic
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Person carrying sweet potato bushel basket with a tumpline strap, August 7, 1947
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: H-27
Scope and Contents
Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Woman carrying bushel basket with tumpline (band around forehead) and her back from the fields on Hedo Misaki to the village of Ginami about 2 miles away. All sweet potatoes grown on the point are carried this way."
Dates:
August 7, 1947
Terraced slopes with two people cutting sweet potato vines, August 14, 1947
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: H-29
Scope and Contents
Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Terraced slopes or Reddish-Brown Lateritic to Red Podzolic soils from calcareous conglomerate and terrace sediments in sweet potatoes just southwest of Nakoshi, a village at the northeast corner of Motobu peninsula. Two women are cutting sweet potato vines on one of the terraces; a girl is carrying a bundle down the path in the valley."
Dates:
August 14, 1947