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|February 16, 2022
In its journey to the Bay of Bengal, the Brahmaputra carves out different types of waterbodies along Assam's landscape.
JAKOI
Resembling a triangular basket is the jakoi or scoop gear, mostly used by the women fishers. Made of bamboo matting, it is edged with thick splinters that extend as handles. Holding on to them, it is dragged like a shovel along the bed of the waterbody. This churns up the water and the fish entering the basket, apparently to take refuge, get caught. With jakoi comes kholoi, a bamboo-wickered pot that the women tie to their waist to keep the fish captured during the trip.
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