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Comment by Wayne Collins:
Take note of the sled used to bring in the ngā rau harakeke from the pāharakeke.
The two young boys have a specific role inside the mill “… to keep the
fibre straight and free from entanglement a boy receives the fibre from
the stripping machine and “leases’ it over his knee in small bundles or
bunches like hanks of yarn about as thick as a man’s wrist, a size
which is found to be convenient to hold during the subsequent
operations of “skutching’.
What koro is doing with the splayed effect of harakeke I can’t guess at…
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