The sago palm provides the bulk of the carbohydrates in the diet of the Penan people. Pouring water over the sago pulp causes the plant's starch to drain from the mash, and the starch will be dried into flour.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Vanishing Cultures," August 1999, National Geographic magazine)
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