There are also the objects used in postmortem rites, such as the tablet of the ancestors (Japanese ihai) in China, Japan, and Vietnam and the miniature straw boat, flat-bottomed and with a curved prow, which is set afloat with a bit of candle and food during the Japanese Shintō festival of lights (Bon), returning the spirit of the ancestor to the land of souls after three days' visit.
Communal straw hats and boats dragged to the water for morning paddles.
A gentle sip on one straw will cause the boat to go to starboard, while a puff will take the boat to port.
Strolling shoeless under the sloped roofs of a Buddhist monastery, Wat Xieng Thong; shopping for paper lanterns on a side street in the middle of town; drinking from a coconut with a straw while peering at the boats on the Mekong River, Mr. Obama savored a tropical afternoon that he said reminded him of his early childhood in Indonesia.
She either exhaled or inhaled to control the boat: The first straw controlled the tiller, and therefore direction; the second straw controlled the winches, which adjusted the sail.
These, the Straw Locomotive and the Paper Boat, captured the imagination with their poignant symbolism of the decline in the city's industrial heritage.
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Russia's Investigative Committee has said the charges against some of those detained might change because drugs - thought to be poppy straw and morphine - were found on the boat.
There is a little wooden cottage where the gondoliers stand about, grumpy and flubby in their striped shirts and straw hats, making noises like primates – oyee, owoo – at their colleagues on passing boats.
After a ceremonial boat race, the young men of the neighborhood set adrift a straw horse to help them predict how next year's catch will be.
