Smithsonian Report. 1952— Walker 



PLATE 4 



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RICE AND SWEETPOTATOES 



Upper: The two principal crops of the Ryukyus; rice, in the irrigable lowland paddy fields, 

 and sweetpotatoes, on the terraced slopes extending up to woodland beyond. 



Lower: Bundling rice seedlings, densely grown in meticulously prepared seed beds, prepara- 

 tory to transplanting into flooded paddy fields shown beyond. Photograph by Delos Flint. 



