Friday, August 7, 2009

Photos from Xizhou

Vats of dye at the batik making factory

Tie-ing the tie-dye

MICHELLE!

Fixin' the dye

George trying to dye fabric

My host daughter, who was kinda cute

Slabs of pork hanging there to dry. I never quite got what that was about.

Cooking equipment and produce

Cutting up some pork, straight from the pig


The marble table in the living room. In the Dali area, marble is so plentiful (the word for marble in Chinese is literally "dali stone" that it's extraordinarily cheap. So even though this family was not incredibly well off (although also far from really poor), they had tons of marble furniture.

View of the mountains from the house.

Marble patio, see my note above.

Host dad!

Host mom wearing traditional Bai headdress.

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