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Title
Tetua grates coconut, in front of her hut
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
Tetua grates coconut, in front of her hut
A young woman grating coconut. At his feet, a "hue" (a hollowed calabash in which coconut macerate to make a coconut sauce). On her right, the colocynth from which we make calabash.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : black-and-white positive, on paper, 14x9 cm
14x9 cm (sup.)
photographs
Identifier
IMP-DEFAP_PFPP179-15007_2.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-88731
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_PFPP179-15007_2.jpg
Subject
Traditional architecture
Houses
Indigenous populations
Food preparation
Women
Everyday life
Place
French Polynesia
Oceania
Tahiti (French Polynesia)
island
Windward Islands
Source
SMEP/PF.PP.179-15007 [File]

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