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These people are making BRICKS.

I like the way the name stamped on the brick is GOLD, as if they

were nuggets of gold instead of bricks made out of baked earth.

Here the women are taking some specially prepared

BRICK CLAY and are shaping it in the rectangular wooden

moulds. They slice off any excess clay with a strip of metal.

Bricks are baked in a special oven called a KILN and the

entire process of making a brick takes 25 DAYS.

These ovens have tall, thin, tower-like chimneys. You can see these CHIMNEYS all over India,

dotting the countryside.

I saw these brickmakers in BENGAL.

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