Agriculture Culture

Passing through Taihape

Kiri: Grotesque.

Fred: I don’t know. It’s a bit of local culture.

Kiri: More local than culture. I mean, a giant gumboot? And in corrugated iron?

Fred: It’s a symbol of the “Throwing the Gumboot” event. Every March.

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Voice-over

Gumboots are part of farming clothing.

Agriculture is culture.
Therefore a gumboot IS a cultural artifact.

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