Title:
Water buffalo, Red River Delta, near Hanoi
Water buffalo are essential to the economy of farming families. Harnessing a water buffalo to a hand plow is still the main
means of cultivating a rice field. Farm boys bathe and tend the animals in rivers and watering holes. At festivals, water
buffalo are harnessed to compete in pulling contests.
Creator/Contributor:
Clifford, Geoffrey, Photographer
Balaban, John, 1943-, Collaborator
Date:
1988
Contributing Institution:
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
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