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Title
Opening of a nacreous oyster with a knife with a thin blade
Creator
Molet
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
102 boulevard Arago - 75014 Paris, France
Défap - Service protestant de mission (Département évangélique français d’action apostolique)
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/contact.html
Description
Opening of a nacreous oyster with a knife with a thin blade
A man, sat in his canoe, opens a nacrous oyster
open shells, at the bottom of his canoe. Nacreous oysters are so-called "mother-of-pearl" in Polynesia.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : black-and-white positive, on paper, 13x12.9 cm
photographs
Identifier
IMP-DEFAP_PFPP179-15101_2.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-88820
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_PFPP179-15101_2.jpg
Subject
Shellfish
Indigenous populations
Men
Fishery products
Dugout
Place
French Polynesia
Oceania
Tahiti (French Polynesia)
island
Windward Islands
Source
SMEP/PF.PP.179-15101 [File]
Relation
Défap - Service protestant de mission
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Défap - Service protestant de mission, Paris, ca. 1880-1971

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