File:Hulling the rice to separate into brown rice and rice husk (1914 by Elstner Hilton).jpg

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If anyone is certain they know what is happening in this scene, please explain it to me and my viewers, because I'm at a loss.

What I see when I look at this photo is a barrel that is half wrapped in what appears to be burlap. The wrapper is bent downwards, and below it is a mound of what I can only assume is grain.

I'd be tempted to say the people are operating a mill of some kind, but for that to be the case the pole they're holding would need to be attached to something that goes around in circles, preferably inside the barrel.

Maybe they're putting the finishing touches on the barrel, and the object into which the pole is stuck somehow cinches the barrel staves together tighter.

But neither explanation really seems to fit here. Uncle Elstner, who usually added comments to explain some of the less obvious aspects of a photo, fell down on the job here, leaving it to posterity to answer:

> what is the contraption at the base of the pole all three people are holding onto?

> does said contraption assist with managing the barrel or managing its contents?

> why is there grain not only on the fabric "downspout" but also in the crevices on both sides of the barrel?

Well, if the people in this photo saw a picture of me at my MacBook Pro, they'd have no idea what I'm doing, so I guess we're even.

This photo is from an album my spouse's uncle Elstner Hilton compiled in Japan between 1914 and 1918.

While Uncle Elstner was pretty good about annotating the photos that required an explanation of some sort, he did not date the pictures. So all we know is they date to between January, 1914 and December, 1918.
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Source Working the Barrel (Best Viewed "Large")
Author A.Davey from Portland, Oregon, EE UU
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  • Japan 1914 - 1918
    I own the originals of these unpublished family photos. ... As a salesman for Atkins Saw Company, Elstner Hilton traveled to the Far East to sell commercial sawmills in the early years of the 20th century. ... Elstner Hilton was my father-in-law Frank Hilton's* brother, which makes him my spouse's uncle. ...
    * Elstner Hilton's brother Frank Hilton compiled a scrapbook of photographs, clippings and other ephemera at Stanford University between 1907 and 1911. ...
    ps: I now have reason to believe that the photos of Japan may be stock photos that Uncle Elstner purchased and pasted into his album. There may be some exceptions: the images of his sister, Miriam, and photos of logging operations in the Phillippines.

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