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Artist unknown :Isole Taiti. Gl'indigeni coltivono la canna del zucchero. [1838-43].

Description:
Shows several workers, concentrating on one in the centre foreground, dressed only in a loin-cloth, using a pole to cultivate among plants in a sugar plantation. A little further off to the left, two workers work among the canes. In the middle distance at right, one worker of a group of three shoulders a bundle of canes. There are two European-style dwellings behind. These may be the buildings...
Display date:
1838 - 1835 - 1810 - 1843 - 1836 - 1830
Location:
Melanesia
Format:
Item
Collections:
TAPUHI
Content partner:
Alexander Turnbull Library
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