A team, or pair of water buffalo, also referred to as oxen, with the heavy Nepali yolk and the plow extending towards the rear of the animals. The plow and the yolk are made from Saal, a dense, durable wood like the white oak of Europe and North America.

Now, the whole point in writing all of this is to overlap the outcome of this story with the outcome of Laljahri’s role play. Renu asked the women in the literacy class what the woman should do. There was some whispering and heads were nodding up and down and then a young woman in the back of the group eagerly raised her hand and said she had an idea. “Let's all go to her village and touch all the plows and all the buffalo!” And that's exactly what they did. We were suddenly all up and all walking to the woman’s village which was hours away. When we arrived the women divided up like an army into four groups and went to the four quadrants of the village and each woman touched all the plows and all the buffalo. They walked out to the fields where the men were working and touched the animals and the plows. Then they started back to the center of the village, to the small crossroads where I was waiting. Before the women got back a group of men came up one of the paths and confronted me. It was a bit of a showdown like in an American Western movie.