Cocoa beans drying in the sun, Samoa

Cocoa beans drying in the sun, Samoa
Date
[ca 1912]
By
Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951
Reference
PA1-o-445-122
Description

Cocoa beans drying in the sun, Samoa, circa 1912. Photograph taken by Alfred James Tattersall.

Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Cocoa beans (sun drying)

"Cocoa planting began around 1900 and by 1912 had become second only to copra production. Labour for copra and cocoa production was provided by indentured labour, from Melanesia from the 1880s, and later from China." (Caption from National Library exhibition `Va'aomanu' - celebrating the history and culture of Samoa.)

Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 19.7 x 24.5

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
Part of
Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa / Rutherford, Alex album 1
Format
1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin print 19.7 x 24.5, Orientation: Horizontal image
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