Set of postcards of Rarotonga, Cook Islands by George R Crummer

Groups include: unmasked dancers; "Group of natives in their old heaten [heathen] fighting dress". Activities include: shipping oranges in canoes; children getting drinking coconuts. Places or buildings include: LMS Mission house; Makea's palace and grounds; Messers Donald and Edenboroughs Wharf an...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/South Seas/Photographs/Box 4
Date(s) of creation: c.1900 - c.1910
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/South Seas/Photographs/Box 4
Summary: Groups include: unmasked dancers; "Group of natives in their old heaten [heathen] fighting dress". Activities include: shipping oranges in canoes; children getting drinking coconuts. Places or buildings include: LMS Mission house; Makea's palace and grounds; Messers Donald and Edenboroughs Wharf and Warehouses; view of foreshore from Wahrf, with people on boats and on shore; part view of Rarotonga from the anchorage; the old government buildings, with people standing and seated in forgraound and on steps of building;. Also includes: a fleet of sailing canoes; "A Freak - the only forked cocoanut tree in the world". Pictures taken by: George R Crummer, Rarotonga.
Previous numbers: 1-3, 5-6, 8, 10, 14-16, 19, 21, 25
Extent: 13 commercially produced postcards
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright held by Crummer. Possibly expired.
File number: 19
Format: Archive