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  • Lagavale family's toilet. Western Samoa. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. Material World Project.
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  • Namgay family toilet in Shingkhey, Bhutan, was part of a program mandated by the country's king to force the Bhutanese to use a specific location for toileting. This program has not been a success. Most families still use the surrounding bushes and fields (1994). Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Namgay family pit toilet in Shingkhey, Bhutan, was part of a program mandated by the country's king to force the Bhutanese to use a specific location for toileting. This program has not been a success. Most families still use the surrounding bushes and fields. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, Toilets of the World page 225.
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  • IND.MWdrv04.081.x..Bachau Yadav, 42, walks past cow dung patties drying in his village. They are used for cooking fuel. Ahraura Village, Uttar Pradesh, India. Revisit with the family, 2004. He and his family were India's participants in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, 1994 (pages: 64-65), for which they took all of their possessions out of their house for a family-and-possessions-portrait..
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  • IND.MWdrv04.072.x..A woman forms patties of cow dung then sun dries and stacks them for use as cooking fuel. Ahraura Village, Uttar Pradesh, India. Work. {{Ahraura is the home village of the Yadav family. The Yadavs were India's participants in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, 1994 (pages: 64-65), for which they took all of their possessions out of their house for a family-and-possessions-portrait.}}.
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  • Manual laborer stirring cow manure at a unit producing methane gas from manure. The methane production unit is located on a farm belonging to the National Dairy Development Board at Anand, Gujarat, India. (1986).
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  • A sample of caterpillar castings tea, called chongcha. The tiny hard pellets of caterpillar excrement are steeped in hot water to produce a tea of sorts which is reputed to possess certain medicinal properties, Kunming, China. (Man Eating Bugs page 105, 101)
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