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Groups include: Rev [William Edward] Goward, Mrs Goward, Miss [Beatrice E] Simmons [nurse, neice of the Gowards, on staff of Rongorongo girls' school 1910 to 1936], [Hubert Arnold] Arnold [South Seas missionary 1913-1929] outside building in Gilbert Islands [Kiribati], indigineous people in background; school girls in procession, Samoa; [Harry S] Griffin with assistants, Alavas, Lafita and Tekoue outside first printing office, Samoa; Jeremiah with his wife and children outside pastor's house at Nanomea [Ellice Islands, now Nanumea, Tuvalu]; Raratonga bicycle club; Rev James W Sibree, Mrs Sibree and "family" [extended, including indigineous people]; group at Arorae [Kiribati]; group putside Chefinitu Church, Lifu [Lifou], Loyalty Islands; group of women inside newly built Girls and Women's School, Beru, Gilbert Islands [Kiribati]; girls from pastor's school, Arorae [Kiribati] in grass skirts and best [ie western] dresses; girls of Nanomanga school [Nanumanga, Tuvalu]. People include: John, "King" of Mangaia [Cook Islands]; [Sarah Elizabeth] Joliffe [teacher at Papaelise school, Funafuti, Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu)]; Sara, wife of Jubilee, one of Rev Goward's assistants; woman and child in traditional Samoan dress; ?Fijian brave; two Samoan girls on steps of house Tutiula, Samoa; [James Edward] Newell seated on recently completed workshop building, Malua [Theological College, Samoa]; Maene [possibly Papuan] Events include: raising the German flag, Samoa, 1900; Tonga dance, Vavau, Friendly Islands [Tonga]; Activities include: teaching women how to bath babies; sweeping leaves; indigineous girls exercising; sailing on River ?Kuvea, Fiji; woman cutting sugar cane [posed, possibly in studio]; taking photograph with camera on tripod in sea, Beru, Gilbert Islands [Kiribati]; Places or buildings include: Papaelise school, Funafuti and Vaitupu church, Ellice Islands [Tuvalu]; Papeiha's tomb, ?Tuevia school,Raratonga [Rarotonga], landing place at Mangaia and Aitutaki, Cook Islands; view in front of mission house, Alofi, Niue [formerly Savage Island]; Matafele church; Jubilee Hall, new workshop, Malua [Theological College], village, Safotulafai, bathing cave an interior of Fagarmalo church Savaii, all Samoa; Chefinitu Church, Lifu [Lifou], Loyalty Isalnds; Cook Islands; houses at Nukunau [Nikunau, Kiribati]; High Street, Vavau, Friendly Islands [Tonga] Also includes: ?Tigian canoe; lava flowing into the sea, Savaii [Samoa]; wooden church bel; ?Manaporiu [ship] in Vavau, Friendly Islands [Tonga]; barrels of lime juice to be shipped to New Zealand from Mangai, Cook Islands; rolling food made from pandanus. Prints taken by/received from: ?AEH; Harry S Griffin.
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