For the last day of domesticated animals, I have got some photos of oxen at work.
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- Costa Rica: Even the yokes (hanging up) are beautifully decorated.
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- Madagascar: A great variety of homemade carts are used by people to carry everything imaginable.
Oxen are very important for the people of Teso in Uganda, especially for ploughing.
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- Uganda: Oxen are used for ploughing
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- Ox-drawn carts are very unusual in Uganda.
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- After scattering millet seeds, cattle are used to trample it into the soil.
Ox carts are a very common form of transport in Madagascar.
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- This harbour is too shallow for boats to moor up, so ox carts are used to ferry people and goods out to the boats.
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- A sledge-like implement is pulled by oxen to prepare paddy fields for planting rice, their staple food.
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- Madagascar
CROSSING CULTURES, FINDING FREEDOM 