This woman is beating muka (flax fibre) in the porch of a meeting house at Mataatua, Bay of Plenty, around 1910. She has placed a rolled-up length of muka on a piece of wood, to pound it with a round club. A number of whāriki (woven flax floor mats) are visible on the porch.
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Photograph by Thomas Pringle
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