Indonesia: Harrowing Rice Field

Helped by the power of a water buffalo, Toraja boys are harrowing a rice field in Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island. Rice is already growing in fields behind them. © 1968.

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Indonesia: Washing Muddy Water Buffaloes

Boys washing the mud off their family’s water buffaloes in a pond near Makassar, in Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island © 1968.

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Indonesia: Toraja Elder

Toraja elder, of Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island, mourning a death at a village funeral 

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Indonesia: How The Toraja Carry Small Animals

1968 photo of a Toraja man of Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island carrying a piglet like a suitcase.

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Indonesia: Transplanting Rice

1968 photo of a Toraja woman and her daughters transplanting rice in Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island.

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Malaysia: Kadazan Boys Riding Water Buffaloes

Lingering along the way to give their families’ water buffaloes a chance to browse, Kadazan boys are riding to a pond where they will wash their animals. The idyllic scene took place in 1968 near Papar, Sabah, a Malaysian part of Borneo.

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Two Ways To Climb A Coconut Tree

Near Legazpi, in the Philippines’ Luzon Island, this man climbed a coconut tree depending only on his strong leg muscles to hug the tree as they pushed himself upward.

Sustained by a liana, a Baka pygmy near M’baki, Central African Republic, is climbing a coconut tree. He uses the ax hooked to his left shoulder to cut steps in the tree as he climbs it.

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Colombia: Not Every Moment Of A Cowboy’s Life Is Hectic

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Pulling a raincoat from a saddle as rain starts falling.

Riding to work through the Llanos’ immensity. Besides the Sahara and Patagonia, few other places on earth have made me enjoy freedom as much as here. 

Reviewing cattle with the boss.

A quiet break from horses and cows. 

Filling a cup of cool drinking water.

Giant barbecue for carnivorous cowboys.

Cowboys bedroom.

Colombia: Stoicism Of A Barefoot Cowboy And His Horse

In Colombia’s Llanos Orientales a barefoot cowboy and his horse remain immobile under a downpour as they keep watch over a herd of zebus. Barefoot riding defines all Llanos cowboys.

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Colombia: Cowboys Sitting By A Fire

Cowboys of Colombia’s Llanos resting by a fire while it’s heating their branding irons.

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