IMAGE
Maori women working with fern roots
- Reference
- 1/1-006273-G
- Description
Shows Maori women sitting around fern roots which have been arranged in heaps. The flax bags used for collecting the fern are lying by. Photograph taken circa 1910s by Northwood brothers.
Fern roots used as charcoal in cooking and heating. [Maori / Michael King p. 105]
Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
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- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches, Orientation: Horizontal image
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