Two men take turns to pound cooked rice with mallets (a wooden hammer). The rice batter is used to make ttok (rice cakes) that constitute special food for parties and on the occasion of memorial services for ancestors. The woman sitting at the board is probably adding water to the dough.
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Willard Dickerman Straight papers, #1260. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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