Triangle-shaped bamboo structure with half of the structure in a river, and the other half on the shore. The side on the river has a raised bamboo platform where a man is standing and pulling a bamboo lever which presumably makes the water flow through.
Annotation:
Phillipines. Irrigating rice with a [indecipherable] [indecipherable]
Cite As:
Gerow D. Brill papers, #1379. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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