OLAC Record oai:humlab.lu.se:hdl:10050/00-0000-0000-0003-E920-B

Metadata
Title:		ˀyáa túuñ
		Nicotiana tabacum
Contributor:		Marie Widén
		Lennart Engstrand
		Björn Widén
		Kàm Ràw
Coverage:		Thailand
Date:		2001-02-27
Description:		Scientific Name: Nicotiana tabacum Common Name: tobacco Arkivcentrum Syd ID: 2073596
		Khmu Name: ˀyáa túuñ 'smoke medicine'
		Description: In a Kammu village, tobacco is very important, and almost everybody smokes. Especially when people go fishing or working in the forest or fields, they have to smoke to get warm, and to scare away mosquitoes. To¬bacco is not used for smoking only, but also to show kindness. When people meet, they first offer each other some tobacco and smoke together. Tobacco is used in all kinds of sacrifices. Tobacco should be planted either in the rainy season in May and June or in October and November. Like chilli plants, tobacco must not be planted while it is raining, because then the earth is warm and the plants may die. In October and November there is no rain, but there is a lot of dew in the morning and at night, and the tobacco plants will grow in the dew. In October and November people grow tobacco in the riverbank gardens (clɔ́ɔŋ) for use during the hot season. The best place for growing tobacco is close to a bamboo cluster. When people clear the new fields, they cut all the bamboos, and when they burn the fields, the fire burns everything around the bamboo clusters, where there will be a lot of ash. To¬bacco which grows around a bamboo cluster (ˀyáa kláak chúk, kláak rháaŋ) has a strong taste because the ash makes the tobacco stronger. In order to make the tobac¬co stronger, the top of the tobacco plant should be cut off when it is ready to flower, and when it sprouts, the shoots should be cut off again and again. Then the leaves will become thicker and thicker, and get a dark green colour. This strong tobacco is good for scaring away mosquitoes when people are weeding the fields. When the leaves are hard enough, they are picked and cut into thin pieces which are dried on a bamboo mat in the sun. The dried tobacco it is kept in a basket. Some people smoke it in a pipe, and some wrap it up in a dried banana leaf as a cigar (kɔ́ɔŋ wàr). People grow tobacco not only for their own use, but they may barter it for other goods in other villages or sell it to the city people.
		Latitude (deg): 18.8116 Longitude (deg): 98.8842667 Altitude (m): 1162
		Note: "Id" refers to the original ID of the dried plant specimen
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Identifier:		oai:humlab.lu.se:hdl:10050/00-0000-0000-0003-E920-B
Identifier (URI):		https://corpora.humlab.lu.se/ds/asv?openpath=MPI256288%23
Type:		image
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:humlab.lu.se:hdl:10050/00-0000-0000-0003-E920-B
DateStamp:		2019-03-27
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Citation:		Marie Widén; Lennart Engstrand; Björn Widén; Kàm Ràw. 2001-02-27. Lund University Humanities Lab corpusserver.