"Shelling cocoa, full page Illustration to face p 344" 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" photograph on 11" x 14" presentation mount
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PrintThis is a black-and-white photograph taken while Charles Branch Wilson worked at the Johns Hopkins University's marine laboratory at Port Antonio, Jamaica in 1897. The photograph depicts a group of 6 women shelling cocoa. They are under a tree with a large pile of seeds, holding knives and baskets, apparently in the process of shelling them.
1897
1897
1897
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Jamaica
SIA RU007235
Charles Branch Wilson papers, 1881-1941 and undated
1 photograph
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Box 7 Folder 5