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South Sea Islanders Cutting Cane
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Title:
South Sea Islanders Cutting Cane
NFSA ID
43706
Year
1889
Frame capture from the 27 seconds of a nitrate film showing South Sea Islander labourers cutting sugar cane at Nambour, Queensland, under the watchful eye of an overseer. One of the few pieces of footage of Melanesian labourers cutting cane in Queensland. Filmed using a static Lumière Cinematograph.
Production company
Queensland Department of Agriculture
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.