Rubber plantation
Sri Lanka
Small slits are cut by hand into the trunks of rubber trees. The white latex runs down into a cocounut-shell cup, and is later collected into a vat, then dripped onto a rotating mass of rubber being cooked over a low, smoky fire.
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