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Photo from Dimen Village of Dyeing yam leaves. Its roots are used to produce an orange-red dye used in the dyeing of fabrics over indigo dye to make them appear iridescent black. Most of the edges of the leaves have been chewed and eaten from insects.
Date Created
2010-07-19
Format
Photograph
Keywords
Kam, Dong, Guizhou, China, Chinese Minority, Cultural preservation, Dimen Village, Nature, Plants, Red dye
Location
Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China
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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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Recommended Citation
Lee, Marie Anna, "Dyeing yam branch" (2010). All Photographs. 2665.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/kam-photos/2665
Keywords
Kam, Dong, Guizhou, China, Chinese Minority, Cultural preservation, Dimen Village, Nature, Plants, Red dye
