Cattle dung on Srpci Pasha wall drying; used for fuel. Field notes from 1954 read: "The place we went to is called Srpci Pasha and is a field type Orthodox village near Bitola. As we walked up the path to the village, the first thing we saw were round blobs of patties of animal dung on all the low (stone) walls drying in the sun. We were told that they would be used as fuel, as there is no wood in this area and the corn cobs that they had been using all winter are now used up. The houses are of stone and mud. Some of them are elevated from the ground level by crude wooden planking but most of them with dirt floor and again very dirty. These people certainly must be hearty stock to take all the dirt as we have noticed all over this area the beds, if they exist at all, are very crude. Often they have wooden legs (frame) with planks laid across and on top of this some loose woven red mat or filthy flax sack stuffed with straw. They are very wide so that the whole family can fit in one."
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