Basket Making: Em Yung works his knife down the length of the split, 1987

Basket Making: Em Yung works his knife down the length of the split, 1987

1987

Em Yung works his knife down the length of the bamboo pole split. Extra strength and care are required to split the nodes without damaging the bamboo or your hand. 

Basket Making, photograph 6 of 21, from Cambodian Traditional Crafts and Religious Ceremonies.

View the Basket Making group of photographs in order on the Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/CambodianBasketMaking.

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