Two women are along the edge of a hill or mountain that was cleared via swidden. The women are hunched over and touching the ground with sacks on their backs.
Annotation:
Women setting out Tobacco [indecipherable] rice strain [?] after grown heads cut off over a slash burned [?] area on side hill of Tablas Island
Cite As:
Gerow D. Brill papers, #1379. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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