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A rocky, sloping flat dotted with seaweed surrounds a clammer. Using a six-tined hoe and wooden hod, the clammer flips grey mud that is covered in rocks. The mud is grey, as is the water that flows into the holes that are left from the flipped mud. The clammer is wearing blue gloves, and they pick up clams in handfuls after each turn of mud, tossing them into their hod. They hold the hoe with their left hand on top and their right hand at the base of the handle. The clammer intermittently narrates what they’re doing and the social conditions surrounding it, as well as advice about digging clams. When the layer of mud underneath the surface is tough, the clammer tends to scratch at the mud, raking through gravel-like mud for clams. The clammer’s practice tends to be digging wide, shallow holes rather than deep ones, continuously turning over new areas of the flat, raking over newly turned mud, and moving on. The clammer moves their hod along the surface of the mud as they continue to a new area.

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