item details
NameVillage scene. From the album: Cook Islands
ProductionUnknown; photographer; circa 1896; Rarotonga
Classificationblack-and-white prints, group portraits
Materialssilver
DimensionsSupport: 108mm (height), 155mm (length)
Registration NumberO.025562
Overview
View of four Cook Islanders standing under a coconut palms, on the edge of a beach. There is a boy standing in the tree above the coconuts. The woman at left appears to be holding a baby, and the man at right is wearing a printed wraparound garment. There are three buildings with thatched roofs and woven walls behind them, and fences made by placing branches horizontally between vertical posts.