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Hamamoto;Okinawa;Japan

 Topic
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Steel drum containing soil and leaves, September 16, 1947

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: H-39
Scope and Contents

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "A 55-gallon steel drum used for storage of night soil, leaves, etc. which forms a thick liquid or slurry and is applied after a period of fermentation with the little can on the end of the stick. This is near the village of Hamamoto, west-central Motobu peninsula."

Dates: September 16, 1947

Steel drum with cultivated patches, September 16, 1947

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: H-40
Scope and Contents A sweet potato patch near the village of Hamamoto, west-central Motobu peninsula. The 55-gallon steel drum on the right is used for storing soil and leaves that are left to ferment. The can tied with a stick leaning against the drum is used to apply the fermented slurry. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Cultivated patches, mostly used for sweet potatoes, among the outcrops of rock on an area of Brown Forest soils and Lithosols from limestone with storage drum (B39)...
Dates: September 16, 1947