This is a photograph of a man who "is busy spinning cotton in the small compound which adjoins his mud-brick home. Most industries requiring the use of light and space are carried on outdoors in Yunnan, where natives find it no problem to work long hours beneath the hot sun." He is holding many threads together as they spin on the reels.
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