Travel of Georg Forster
Tahiti - Society Islands (Otaheite, O-Taheitee)
Title
Fabric manufacture in the woods
Short description
On another of his excursions, George Forster describes the sound of birds and a loud noise he discovers coming from a hut in the forest. Here he saw women making cloth from mulberry bark.
Text on source
Whether it was owing to the early hour of our excursion, or to the beauty of the morning, our ear was saluted by the song of many small birds, which enlivened this delightful country. We had not walked far, when we heard a loud noise in the wood, which resembled the strokes of a carpenter's hammer. We followed the sound, and at last came to a small shed, where five or six women were sitting on both sides of a long square piece of timber, and beat the fibrous bark of the mulberry-tree here, in order to manufacture it into cloth.
English translation
Folios/Pages
p. 276
Date
1773 08 19
Observations on the events description
The dots on the map indicate the places where sound and music events were described. They don't represent travel stages.
Participants
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Forster, Johann Reinold
Travel fellow
How to quote
Fabbrocino A. P., "Fabric manufacture in the woods" (Event description), Echos. Sound Ecosystems in Travelogues. Published 2024 03 15.
doi: 10.25430/echos.travels.76
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