Takaroan pearl divers confer with Willard Bascom and chief Paniora, during the Capricorn Expedition

• 1952

• Spencer F. Baird (Ship)

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Helen Raitt Papers.

(Left to right) Fereti and Tehaiere (with diving goggles around their necks), Willard Bascom, and chief Paniora (holding weighted diving line).

• Capricorn Expedition (1952-1953)

• Oceania
• Tuamotus (French Polynesia)

• Bascom, Willard N., 1916-
• Fereti
• Paniori
• Tehaiere

• Pearl divers

• image

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• Helen Raitt Papers, 1927-1985 (SMC 19)

• UC Regents

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2021-12-10