Rice Sickle

Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 7:51PM
[chuck] in Art, Chăm, Ninh Thuan province, rice sicke

This Chăm rice sickle from Ninh Huan province is one of the most beautiful utilitarian objects that I've ever seen. The somewhat snake-like form of the handle may be explained by this. [NOTE: From the Vietnamese Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi].

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