HARVESTING MALLET BARK

The brown mallet trees' bark was harvested to make the tanning for leatherwork.

A series of eight photos showing a team of workers harvesting Mallet bark.

a) Photo show the camp where the workers lived,
b) Starting work on a fallen tree
c) Stripping the bark from the tree trunk
d-e) Loading the mallet bark rolls onto the cart
f) Workers are holding the long handled mallet bark. The team includes Ted Tunney, James Tunney jnr, Tom Larsen, Billy Thomas and Jack Stamp.
g) Camp photo: note the bed roll in the foreground and the cut twine ready for tying the bundles of bark
f) wrapping the mallet bark into rolls