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John Simona Marsters, front, and Tio Marsters, grating arrowroot into wooden troughs, on Palmerston Island, Cook Islands
- Date
- 1960
- Reference
- PA12-0518-02
- Description
John Simona Marsters, front, and Tio Marsters of the Second Family grating arrowroot into large wooden troughs hand-adzed from tamanu trunks. The arrowroot gratings, highly poisonous initially, need to be washed many times before the remaining powder can be used for cooking. Photograph taken Palmerston Island in 1960 by John Colles Burland.
Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies.
Physical Description: 35mm colour slide
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Burland, John Colles, 1926- :Colour transparencies of Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Mangaia and Palmerston Island, 1960 / Palmerston Atoll
- Format
- 1 colour original transparency/ies, Transparencies, 35mm colour slide
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