John Simona Marsters, front, and Tio Marsters, grating arrowroot into wooden troughs, on Palmerston Island, Cook Islands
- 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. Physic...
- Display date:
- 1960
- Location:
- Cook Islands
- Format:
- Piece
- Collections:
- TAPUHI
- Content partner:
- Alexander Turnbull Library
- Availability:
- Not specified
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