Tom blok Photo collection by Th.Schiöler Man powered The swing canoe or the dhoon Photo 19
The swing canoe or the dhoon
Gul streg
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The dhoon in Bangladesh
The peasant buys his canoe in the marketplace, but the framework he makes himself of bamboo.
It is hard work irrigating a big field with the dhoon, so every quarter of an hour a short rest is needed. It could be calculated that 7% of the harvest goes into the stomach of the dhoon-man.
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Photo 511 x 506 pixels, 43,6 K
 
The dimension of a dhoon.
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