Media item

News from New Guinea: wood winning on Batanta

Week number 55-33

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
01:37
Publication date:
1 January 1955
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
WEEKNUMMER553-HRE0000D698

Wood winning on the island of Batanta. Papuan people cut the Merbau trees down by hand and chop them into pieces, a bulldozer drags the trees to the coast where they are hauled onto a pontoon.