tant. Slash-and-burn agriculture was used early on, but has declined greatly over the last fifty years. The forests also supply numerous needed items. These include firewood, housing wood, leaves, fruits, vegetables, bamboo shoots, berries, mushrooms, pharmaceutical plants, rattan for housing, artifacts, and breadfruit. In contrast, the flour of the breadfruit is only used in times of extreme scarcity. Women help with irrigation, harvesting, weaving, rice husking, and food gathering in the forests. Children usually help with the livestock and minor chores. Hunting is also a large part of the culture. Traps, crossbows, nets, snares, flintlocks, lime twigs, and simple rifles are used to obtain edible meat. Males usually do the hunting, plowing, digging, tool making, and the building of ho
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