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404647
  • Title
    Photographic views of Fiji, vol.2
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXE 854 (v.2)
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca. 1890s
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    404647
  • Physical Description
    1 album (104 photoprints) - 32 x 38.5 cm. - albumen
  • Scope and Content
    1. Fijian Chiefs and native Constabulary / [in handwriting on page under print and presumably referring to four chiefs on right is] Ratu Karovu, Ratu Joni M'w(mr?), La La, Beni Tanoa
    2. Fijian sailing canoe
    3. [5 Fijian men]
    4. "Kayya Kayya" or Fiji Native Bridge
    5. Kava plants, village of Kasavu, Fiji
    6. Fijians drinking Kava or Fiji grog
    7. [Two seated Fijian women]
    8. [Seated Fijian man]
    9. Fijian "Meke Meke" or War Dance
    10. Beating the Lali[?] or Fiji war drum
    11. [Fijian man]
    12. [Fijian Chief Girl]
    13. Fijian river canoe, Rewa River
    14. Fijian "Meke"or dance
    15. Fiji Chief Girls
    16. Turtles for for a feast, Fiji
    17. Scene in the village of Na Mata, Fiji
    18. Village scene Nakini, Fiji
    19. Fijian "Rokos" or Head Chiefs
    20. Fijian "Lali" or war drum
    21. Samoan girl
    22. [Fijian man]
    23. Village scene, Viria, Rewa River, Fiji
    24. Chief's House at Na Mata, Fiji
    25. [2 Fijian men]
    26. The "stranger's house" or native's hotel at Bau, Fiji
    27. [Samoan woman (see 57a)]
    28. [Fijian woman]
    29. Fijian armed constabulary
    30. Group of Chief girls at Bau, Fiji
    31. House building at Bau, Fiji, "finishing touches"
    32. House building at Bau, Fiji
    33. Turtles, Yams, Taro & Fiji kava orgroo
    34. [Fijian women]
    35. Fiji fisherwoman
    36a. Landing kava and taro at Suva, Fiji
    36b. Viria, Fiji
    37a. Ratu Epeli's house, Bau, Fiji
    37b. Fijians and kava bowl
    38a. Scene in the village of Nacokikaa, Fiji
    38b. Old cannibal "lovo" or oven, Fiji
    39a. Na Mata, Fiji
    39b. Canoes and bamboo rafts, Suva, Fiji
    40a. Site of old cannibal oven, Bau, Fiji
    40b. House building, Fiji
    41a. Cannibal stone at Bau. Fiji
    41b. Fijian round house at Ba
    42a. Kasavu, Fiji
    42b. "Vale ni bose"or Chief's Meeting House
    43a. Site of old heathen temple at Bau, Fiji
    43b. [Two Fijian (soldiers?)]
    44a. Women's bathing place, No Mata, Fiji
    44b. Fijian warriors, Nacokikaa
    45a. Fiji village with breadfruit trees
    45b. Fijians with clubs, Viria
    46a. Village of Nasama, Fiji
    46b. Kasavu, Fiji
    47a. Savu Falls, Rewa River, Fiji
    47b. Fijian round house at Ba
    48a. [Fijian woman]
    48b. Viria, Fiji
    49a. Fijian river canoe
    49b. Village scene at Bau, Fiji
    50a. Turtles, yams and taro, Fiji
    50b. House building at Bau, Fiji
    51a. Canoes loaded with yams, Fiji
    51b. Fijians planting cane
    52a. Bamboo rafts with houses, Fiji
    52b. Fijian sailing canoes
    53a. Bamboo raft, with house, Fiji
    53b. Navota, Fiji
    54a. [Village scene]
    54b. Tree ferns, Fiji
    55a. [Fijian man]
    55b. [2 Fijian women]
    56a. The Madagascar Travellers Tree, Suva, Fiji
    56b. Viria, Fiji
    57a. Samoan woman and boy
    57b. Food supply for native village, D(?)reeba, Fiji
    58a. Fijian war dance with clubs
    58b. Fijians with clubs, Viria
    59a. Sounding the alarm "lali" or Fiji war drum
    59b. Fijian warriors with breastplates
    60a. [Fijian woman]
    60b. Fijian maiden
    61a-d, 62a & c. [Fijians]
    62b. Levuka, Fiji
    63a-d, 64a-d, 65a-d. [Fijians]
  • General note

    Captions printed on photographs
    Volume bound Dec. 1930 (date inside back cover)
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    W.C.F. -- ca. 70 photographs signed
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