'Washing Sago in Matu' by Hedda Morrison

 'Washing Sago in Matu' by Hedda Morrison,Circa 1948.Photograph showing a woman standing in a large, woven basket, into which she is scooping water from the river. The basket is supported by a timber framed jetty, over the river. 

More woven containers and bowls sit in the foreground, left side. The sago pith is first scraped from sago logs, then washed, trampled and shaken in a basket (the process being performed in this photograph). The water poured through the pith washes the sago flour into a container underneath the basket.