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[[left side]] 40 as kikirs, palu, grinda tangan (DUP say 128,000 per workplace) - kikirs used cost 2750 @, use up 2 a mo. [[hand drawing]] when the parang blade is filed it is laid across wooden pegs which stick out of the ground at a slant we next visited 2 pondok in the same village which are making traditional rencong with wood, brass + ivory handles owner wanted 20,000 Rp for a small ivory + brass recong,[[sic]] 8000 Rp for a wood + ivory one rencong blade must use what they call "white iron" ("besi putih") - main source ship engines, a certain part - an agent brings it in to the village 1 kilo white iron enough to make 16 small rencong blades, or 12 medium 1 kilo sells for 1000 Rp [[right side]] 41 -they get gading (ivory) for a gold dealer (tukang mas) - some is imported ((most, probably - no wild elephants left in Indonesia)) - they deal w/ a tukang mas on Jl. Perdagangan (Toko Tjahaya Bintang, Keci Demi, probably Banda Aceh) - they get brass from old bullets and also from 'plat' (plate) - brass comes from an/the agen also - 3 people can make 1 med-sized rencong a day 1 tepun 6 workers [[left margin of right side]] ATEUK [[left margin of right side]] next visited ceramic village of Atiuk, about 15 min. from Banda Aceh - enrolled in a 2nd-yr. provincial project-training course to teach them to make design objects out of cement + sand (see above p. 10) -stopped at household making large red clay water pots, painted inside + out with cement wash - pots are modeled entirely by hand, the use of the slow wheel being unknown in this area clay comes from the sawahs, the women carry it back on their heads