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Opium Lancing Tool

modelCanon EOS-1Ds Mark III
softwareAdobe Photoshop CS3 Windows
exposureTime 0.017 s (1/60) (1/60)
fnumberf/8.0
isoEquiv200
DateTime2014:02:07 13:22:42
Distance0.74 (74/100)
flashUsedNo
focalLength105.00 (105/1)

ENG: Tapping / lancing tool used to harvest opium by vertically incising the opium capsules: a specialised knife consisting of a set of a few (here, two) parallel steel blades (razor blades here) mounted on a handle (bamboo handle here). Anjaw district, Arunachal Pradesh, India.

FR: Couteau à inciser les capsules de pavot: composé de plusieurs lames métalliques parallèles (ici, deux lames de rasoir) montées sur un manche (ici, en bambou), le couteau permet d’inciser verticalement les capsules de pavot desquelles s’écoule l’opium. District d’Anjaw, Arunachal Pradesh, Inde.

Category: Agriculture • Asia • India • People • Woman