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Black and white vintage print, depicting a scene in New Zealand, with several Maori women, seated and standing inside a whare (house) or wharenui (meeting house) engaged in weaving flax mats, with kete (baskets) and utensils hanging from the ceiling, and a pou tokomanawa (central column) with its base carved in the shape of an ancestor or mythological figure visible in the foreground, published in John George Wood's volume "The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world, being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics", 1877. Courtesy Internet Archive. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)