Husk Collection

A family husking Kola nuts in Nigeria, Africa. The caffeine-containing fruit of the tree is used as a flavoring ingredient in beverages

Sierra Leone, West Africa - Husking of Rice pestle & mortar
Sierra Leone, West Africa - The husking of rice using a pestle and mortar - common traditional domestic scene of food preparation. Date: circa 1910s

Chinese agriculture. Peasants planting a field with a seeding machine (a hopper with two pipes leading to pronged feet), man irrigating a field on a water pump

Blond plantain or desert Indianwheat, Plantago ovata (Plantago ispaghula). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley

Coconut tree, Cocos nucifera. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants)

Madagascar - Shelling (De-husking) Rice Date: circa 1906

Handmade New Year card in the shape of nuts, which opens to reveal a seasonal greeting. Date: circa 1890s

Handmade Christmas card in the shape of nuts, which opens to reveal a seasonal greeting. Date: circa 1890s

Seychelles Island cocoa-nut, ripe spadix with husk, ripe nut and embryo, Lodoicea sechellarum.. Illustration by WJ Hooker, engraved by Swan

Workers Preparing Rice in Jamaica
Workers prepare rice in Jamaica. The rice is knocked off the straw, beaten with a wooden pestle to loosen the grain from the husk, then winnowed in hand sieves. Date: circa 1895

Durian fruit from Singapore
The durian fruit is distinctive for its large size, unique odour (some compare it to sewage, stale vomit, skunk spray), and formidable thorn-covered husk

Vietnam, Hanoi - Rice Husking
Two young girls working at the decortication (husking/hulling) of rice in Hanoi, Vietnam. Date: circa 1903

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