Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of two aborigine boys pounding Tsuso pith to make paper, Taihoku, Taiwan, [s.d.]. At center, two adolescent boys squat around a small pit, smashing plant matter with large wooden plungers. A forest of thin-trunked trees surrounds them. Writing beneath the image reads "At work in Tsuso grove, pushing otu white pith by means of wooden plungers. All the trees shown in the picture are Tsuso. From the American Consul at Taihoku, Taiwan".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 13 x 18 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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