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Description
Photo from Dimen Village of Wu Meitz crushing the Chinese gooseberry vines with her sickle to release their sap. The sap from the vine is used to make formation aid that keeps the paper fibers from tangling during the papermaking process.
Date Created
2010-07-17
Format
Photograph
Keywords
Kam, Dong, Guizhou, China, Chinese Minority, Cultural preservation, Women, Photographs, Mulberry bark, Paper, Crafts, Dimen Village, Wild Kiwi, Chinese gooseberry
Location
Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China
Acknowledgements
Funding Provided by University of the Pacific
Rights Holder
Marie Anna Lee, c. 2019
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All images and videos provided in the Kam Minority Archive by Marie Anna Lee on University of the Pacific's Scholarly Commons are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) license.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Lee, Marie Anna, "Crushing the Chinese gooseberry vines" (2010). All Photographs. 1233.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/kam-photos/1233
Keywords
Kam, Dong, Guizhou, China, Chinese Minority, Cultural preservation, Women, Photographs, Mulberry bark, Paper, Crafts, Dimen Village, Wild Kiwi, Chinese gooseberry
