117 Men planting rice

Title: 117 Men planting rice
Description: Two men are dropping a few rice seeds in each hole and tamping soil over them with the butts of their bamboo seed containers. A square altar can be seen on the ground between them. Before starting to plant, they burned some incense on the smoldering log inside the altar and recited a spell to the earth spirit, a Malay practice that they adopted along with swidden farming.
Coverage: Malaysia
Creator: Endicott, Kirk M.
Date: 1990
Format: JPG
Identifier: https://commons.keene.edu/s/KSCArchive/item/12924
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Type: Stillimage
Provenance: Keene State College