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
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