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Salt workers of Marakkanam
2019-05-27
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
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About this work
Workers at the salt pans of Marakkanam. Marakkanam in Tamil Nadu, India has many salt pans where they produce sea salt by drying up sea water that is pumped into pans. Women work in assembly line fashion to carry dried salt from the fields to a common dumping point.