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Pak Partopahing's house makes aluminum spoons if we want to see- go straight west from the market & house on north side of road
buruh toni from Dukoh Kawarasan for all processes except lukut garu
2 households in KI with no adult males, B. Mentokaryo & B. Gunokaryo (not wife of founder) - live from working as buruh toni in neighbors ladangs;
B. Mento has no ladang but B.Guno has some & mengupa orang lain
if drought people depend on hasil from pandai besi to buy food supplies in the market
- people now cannot predict years of drought & years when sumbers dry up, but orang jaman kuno could because "mereka mengunakan ilmu kebathinan" (because they used inner science)
processing gaplek

[[image]] 1. pound in the long trough in the lesung


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2. made finer in by pounding in the round hole
acc to M. & Harjopaw. :
        1978    1977     1976      1975
RAINFALL  terlalu banjak  kurang  kurang  cukup
SUMBER AIR  kurang  kurang  kur 6 cukup  besar
SUNGAI  kurang  kurang  kur cukup besar  besar
SUMUR   cukup  kurang  kurang  cukup balik

only 4 months ago did the wells begin filling up again
before that only 10 wells had a little water in them & could be counted on (out of 27 wells in KI)
if too much rain plants, esp. peanuts, spoil
if sumbers full means next year food will be expensive & reverse
Sumber Kajar has been there ever since Pak M. can remember & called Sumber Kajar because a plant resembling talus grew there called kajar 
(kekajar is to vibrate the body
hysterically))
at the bottom of Sumber Kajar