Twentieth Century Life in these Houses: Poster: Nigerian Woman Flailing Rice

Poster: Nigerian Woman Flailing Rice

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Figure 186. Poster: Nigerian woman flailing rice

This Nigerian woman also used a table-like structure to thresh her rice, but she used no flail. She simply beat the stalks of rice against the structure and the grains of rice fell through to a sheet on the ground. Though the Mars Bluff rice growers used a variety of methods, no one at Mars Bluff used this method of threshing. (“Recommended Practices for Swamp Rice Production” [Samaru, Zaria, Nigeria: Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services, Ahmadu Bello University, 1981]) (Poster by Amelia Vernon, donated 1998.)