Basket Making: Em Yung shaves each bamboo splint, 1987
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Title
Basket Making: Em Yung shaves each bamboo splint, 1987
Date
1987
Description
Em Yung begins the long process of individually shaving each bamboo splint until they are thin enough to weave into a basket. He wraps a piece of material around his finger to insulate his skin against the heat generated each time the splint is pulled over the knife.
Basket Making, photograph 9 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.
Basket Making, photograph 9 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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Publisher
University of Massachusetts Lowell
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Format
1 photograph; 12.6 x 8.9
Type
Identifier
basket_making_09
Coverage
Citation
Chigas, George, “Basket Making: Em Yung shaves each bamboo splint, 1987,” Southeast Asian Digital Archive, accessed February 16, 2025, https://umlseada.omeka.net/items/show/281.
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