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Natives Cooking Poi, Tahiti
John La Farge (American, 1835–1910)
1891
Medium/Technique
Watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 33 x 21.5 cm (13 x 8 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number21.1433
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsLower left artist's hand: Tahiti, Tautira, March, 1891. Ori-a-ori and his people cooking "poi" in the open oven - The bundles under wood contain poi. "Over the earth will be leaves, then earth as I wrote you." Poi is plantain or cocoanut; lower right: Should be spade against tree (with a sketch of the lower right corner of picture, cocoanuts.
ProvenanceLent by William Sturgis Bigelow, December 19, 1910. Returned February 6, 1911. Gift 1921