New Zealand - Kauri Gum
- Kauri gum in its rough state being put through an oil-driven washing machine
- This operation saves time and labour, besides preventing waste.
- 27/7/1922
- Unknown Photographer
- Originally published in "The Auckland Weekly News"
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- Kauri gum is a fossilised resin detracted from kauri trees.
- It is made into crafts such as jewellery.
- Kauri gum formed when resin from kauri trees leaked out through fractures or cracks in the bark, hardening with the exposure to air.
- Lumps commonly fell to the ground and became covered with soil and forest litter, eventually fossilising.
- Other lumps formed as branches forked or trees were damaged, which released the resin.