Pacific Islanders harvesting cane on Bingera Plantation, 1884

Pacific Islanders harvesting cane on Bingera Plantation, 1884

Description

This sepia photograph shows around ten Pacific Islander labourers in a sugar-cane field at Bingera Plantation near Bundaberg in Queensland as the cane is being harvested. A well-dressed European man and two young children pose in the cleared foreground, while in the mid-ground stands a fully laden horsedrawn wagon with several Islanders near it. In the background the remaining Islanders cut cane by hand.

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