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Every year at the end of September or the start of October, [9] Motu men prepared their Lakatoi or lagatoi (a large, multi-hulled sailing canoe) for the hiri, while the women shaped and fired the uro (pots). When the laurabada (south-east trade winds) started to blow, the canoes set off to the west.
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Traditional trades (known also as traditional building trades and preservation trades) is a loosely defined categorization of building trades who actively practice their craft in respect of historic preservation, heritage conservation, or the conserving and maintenance of the existing built environment. Though traditional trade practitioners ...
The Sumerian economy refers to the systems of trade in ancient Mesopotamia. Sumerian city-states relied on trade due to a lack of certain materials, which had to be brought in from other regions. Their trade networks extended to places such as Oman, Arabia, Anatolia, the Indus valley , and the Iranian Plateau. Sumerians also bought and sold ...
The feudal system, in which the land was owned by a monarch, who in exchange for homage and military service granted its use to tenants-in-chief, who in their turn granted its use to sub-tenants in return for further services, gave rise to several terms, particular to Britain, for subdivisions of land which are no longer in wide use.
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Generally, each family was allocated twelve villages, and the Bazigar were paid by the villagers to entertain them. Many are now daily wage labourer. They speak their own argot known as bazigarboli. Historically, the Bazigar were either Hindu or Muslim, but with the departure of their Muslim patrons, the Bazigar of Punjab have embraced Sikhism.