2.18 Clearing trees to make a garden: Yuway chops a tree half-way through. A large tree felled in the center of the clearing will knock it and many other trees over at the same time. Chopping trees with steel axes rather than with ones made of stone has allowed Gebusi to clear larger gardens and construct bigger and more numerous houses. |
2.20 A hillside garden by a river. Banana plants grow up through the fallen mass of tree trunks and branches that are left on top of them when the garden is cleared. |
2.22 Leaves of a mature banana plant. Starchy bananas or plantains are the traditional daily food staple in the Gebusi diet. |
