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      Listed under:  Society  >  Culture  >  Regional culture  >  Pacific Island peoples
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      Pacific Islander labourers outside slab-hut dwellings, late 1800s

      • TLF-IDR8004

      This is a black-and-white photograph showing indentured Pacific Islanders and their families posing by their slab-hut homes, probably on a coastal Queensland sugar plantation. They are wearing Western-style clothes, with the women in long skirts and the men wearing jackets and trousers. The huts appear to have been constructed ...

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      Pacific Islander labourers in the Mackay District, late 1800s

      • TLF-IDR8008

      This posed black-and-white photograph shows indentured Pacific Islanders by their grass hut homes, probably on a Mackay sugar plantation in Queensland. Some are seated on logs or rough timber benches and one woman can also be seen. They are dressed in Western-style clothes. More huts can be seen on the cleared rise in the ...

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      Pacific Islander workers on a coffee plantation, c1900

      • TLF-IDR8011

      This black-and-white photograph shows indentured Pacific Islander labourers manually gathering coffee beans from lines of bushes on a Kuranda coffee plantation on the Atherton Tableland in Queensland. This image shows male, female and child labourers standing among the shoulder-high coffee bushes. The Pacific Islanders ...

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      Pacific Island labourer recruiting ship 'Para', c1880

      • TLF-IDR8178

      This is a drawing of the two-masted brigantine 'Para', probably completed by Master Mariner William Wawn during a successful five months voyage to the Solomon Islands in 1894. One of a series of sketches of his impressions of the islands in pencil, ink and watercolour, it shows the recruiting ship offshore at anchor, as ...

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