Malagasy women in muslin skirts, canezou and simbou shawl pounding rice in a large mortar and pestle. Natives of Madagascar pounding rice. Woodcut by Trichon from Robert Brown’s The Races of Mankind, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, 1873.

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