Dudley Leavitt (1772-1851) was a New Hampshire educator, newspaper editor, and polymath, who was the publisher of the Leavitt's Farmers Almanack -- one of America's earliest almanacs. Levitt's papers reside in the NH State Library. The documents represented in KSCommons were selected for use in the NH Citizen Archivists' Initiative.
On reverse: 2/2/92 11:17 #27 Beib Cnagoh loads up a dart w/poison from the jnin, lays it point-up on a stick by the embers of the fire. Repeats w/another, and another
On reverse: 2/2/92 11:15 #26 Beib Cnagoh says "Lah ced" ["Already cooked"], scraping the bottom of the lib w/his jnin. Women don't cook poison: "Maay syoh maay baal" they fear they get intoxicated. If you don't know how to, you die. In photo, he's sticking the jnin in and out like a piston "hi-jeey dab bab-har" we/one stirs [?] [optative particle] melt/dissolve
On reverse: 2/2/92 11:26 Beib Cnagoh scrapes residue, now a damp powder, off the sides of the wok w/his jnin; he scrapes it off onto his 4 darts [see notes]
On reverse: 2/2/92 11:35 Beib Cnagoh stirred up fire, and got a tongue depressor sized longitudinal strip of bamboo skin (made while making filter) from the dump. He folds it into a "U" scrapes the bottom of the U along the base of the lib, collecting the dark orange powder in the base of the U as a bored Dob fusses w/the tnlor to make a pool
On reverse: Beib Cnagoh and Wab Dob 11:20 2/2/92 BC has just added a little (< 2 tbs) of water from the tnlor to the wok, which he has replaced on the fire. While he waits, he readjusts the 4 darts so the tips are a little closer to the embers, adds a little more poison to each; then tips wok back and forth, sloshing the now hot water back and forth. Dob watches, then, restless, fiddles w/a young banana tree, singing fragments of Malay pop songs
On reverse: 2/2/92 11:50 Wab Snah, Dob's elber sister, Dob in the BG, washes clothes at Dob's pool. At 11, Snah no longer removes all her clothes when bathing
