Miscellaneous photographs of the Cook Islands

Groups include: Villagers walking along road, Puka Puka; People include: boy at ship's wheel; Rarotongan woman. Places and buildings include: The principle LMS Church, Avarua, Rarotonga; site of one of the heathen ?"maraes" at Rarotonga. Also includes: Memorial to Ruatoka of Mangaia, LMS teacher i...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/South Seas/Photographs/Box 5
Date(s) of creation: c.1900 - c.1930
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/South Seas/Photographs/Box 5
Summary: Groups include: Villagers walking along road, Puka Puka; People include: boy at ship's wheel; Rarotongan woman. Places and buildings include: The principle LMS Church, Avarua, Rarotonga; site of one of the heathen ?"maraes" at Rarotonga. Also includes: Memorial to Ruatoka of Mangaia, LMS teacher in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea; South Sea idols; paste-up board for page of The Chronicle October 1921, p.222 "100 Years in the Cook ISlands 1821-1921" also reproduced in News From Afar October 1928 p.150 to celebrate 200 years since Captain James Cook 's birth including; idol obtained by John Williams; Aitutaki dance by crew of John Williams. Pictures taken by/received from: Eastman
Extent: 18 items comprising 17 silver gelatine or Printing out paper prints and 1 paste-up board with 6 mounted prints.
Access status: Open
File number: 26
Format: Archive