item details
NameBoys collecting coconuts. From the album: Cook Islands
ProductionUnknown; photographer; circa 1896; Rarotonga
Classificationblack-and-white prints
Materialssilver
DimensionsSupport: 101mm (height), 146mm (length)
Registration NumberO.025570
Overview
View of a short coconut palm tree, with a naked boy holding onto the trunk just below the coconuts. A second boy wearing a printed wraparound garment is standing at the base of the tree with a pile of coconuts at his feet. There is a row of houses with plaster walls and thatched roofs on the left, and a dirt path and white fence on the right.