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Caged birds for hire
(Vietnam: Saigon)

March 2003
Vietnam: Saigon: Caged birds for hire

Outside popular temples, people "sell" cages full of birds that worshippers can release to the skies. It seems as if the birds are trained to re-convene at a secret rendezvous spot, because a few minutes after each flight to freedom, an old woman showed up with a cage full of twittering prisoners and handed it to the woman pictured here.


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