Consecration: Two women preparing to chew dried betel-nut, 1987

Consecration: Two women preparing to chew dried betel-nut, 1987

1987

Two lay women preparing to chew the dried betel-nut kept in the silver tins. The betel-nut is placed in a leaf of tobacco, spread with a pink lime paste that activates the ingredients of the betel-nut, then folded into a square and placed between the cheek and gum. This "pastime" is very popular among the women who generally do not smoke.

Consecration of the Buddha Statue, photograph 16 of 45, from Cambodian Traditional Crafts and Religious Ceremonies.

View the Consecration group of photographs in order on the Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/BuddhaConcecration.

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