IMAGE
Palmerston Atoll
- Date
- [1960]
- By
- Burland, John Colles, 1926-2015
- Reference
- PA12-0518
- Description
Views on Palmerston Atoll, Cook Islands, including the weavibng of pandanus mats, processing arrowroot, cooking, hunting green turtles, and fishing for parrotfish, taken in 1960 by John Burland.
Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Burland, John Colles, 1926- :Colour transparencies of Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Mangaia and Palmerston Island, 1960
- Format
- 24 colour original transparency/ies, Transparencies
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UnknownBob Marsters removing the head of a green sea turtle, on Palmerston Island
Date: 1960
From: Burland, John Colles, 1926- :Colour transparencies of Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Mangaia and Palmerston Island, 1960
Reference: PA12-0518-13
Description: Bob Marsters removing the head of a male green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) with an axe in readiness for butchering. The turtle was caught in the Palmerston Atoll lagoon. Photograph taken on Palmerston Island in 1960 by John Colles Burland. Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: 35mm colour slide
John Simona Marsters, front, and Tio Marsters, grating arrowroot into wooden troughs, o...
Date: 1960
From: Burland, John Colles, 1926- :Colour transparencies of Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Mangaia and Palmerston Island, 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
Tepou Marsters and her adopted daughter weaving pandanus mats on the floor of the famil...
Date: 1960
From: Burland, John Colles, 1926- :Colour transparencies of Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Mangaia and Palmerston Island, 1960
Reference: PA12-0518-01
Description: Tepou, wife of Bob Marsters, and her adopted daughter, young Tepou, weaving pandanus mats on the floor of the family sleeping house. Photograph taken on Palmerston Atoll, Cook Islands, in 1960 by John Colles Burland. Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: 35mm colour slide