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making fish nets & traps & 1 making [[gamping?]]
- we also saw a lot of goats of indigenous type (short legs & fur), so this may also be important (PDP goats of taller long - eared type)

village located in upland basin which traps water & is often swampy

lower - lying areas of the village [[strikethrough] are farmed in the day season- in the rainy season these lower lying areas flood & turn into swamps, so the people shift to farming on the hills

polowigs planted [[strikethrough]] inday [[strikethrough]]:[[?]] tree cassava
certain areas of the village can also be planted in rice (north & west sides)

Villagers all have some [[tarah?]] group of their own, except 10 persons who are more recent arrivals in the village (e.g. persons who have married in but have no inheritance of their own.

In addition about 75% of the people have forest plots loaned to them by forestry department under following arrangements: they receive seedlings ([[jaiti + mellanding?]]) & plant - they may also intercrop polowijo and then the polowijo belongs to them

-The only payment, other than the rt. to plant polowijo, from the forestry dept is 4000 [[strikethrough]] divided into 2 parts, half paid at end of 6 mo, half at end of 1 year

-women make the [[tikar?]] from welingi, a plant which grows year-round in the swampier bits; welingo grows to be about 3m high and makes an attractive mat, somewhat courser than mendong

All the village women make, but as samben + make year-round because the plant available year round

No paid buruh & virtually no cost for raw materials because welingi is free - some small cost for packets of dye used to dye some strips red + green + these woven