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Groups include: "The congregation" of indigenous men and children; villagers seated in ceremonial dress; missionary women being carried ashore, group waiting on beach; Delena district teachers; indigenous children with arms in air, some holding books, missionary teacher in background; open air school; Kopuama school group; women carrying babies in different ways; crowd with food on beach; children playing in wheelbarrow, caption reads "Barrow load of rough material"; group of Delena children sitting on beach; three children; Fafoa with her boy and Papauta; Nara dancers in ceremonial dress; Hisiu girls in ceremonial dress. People include: Dauncey wearing indigenous feather headdress, captioned "Who Is He?"; girl with cow bell on schoolhouse steps; "A young minder" looking after child; grandmother holding child, Koloka; infant in net bag; the Papuan tailor; parent and child on beach with dog; head and shoulders portraits, including Ua, Miria the sorcerer; Motumotu man [Jokea], an oiled girl "A Well Oiled Amazon" and a widower; portrait of young boy with "two convenient handles" hair style; boy with long yam; individual portraits of Nara dancers in ceremonial dress, including "a tight laced dandy"; Ume and crocodile jaws. Events include: bridal procession. Activities include: Rev Harry Moore Dauncey and wife having breakfast on the beach, with two indigenous boys attending; female missionary being carried around the rocks; girls and women making baskets on porch; scramble in front of Timoteo's house; loading canoes; pig-a-back on the sands, holding two pots ready for shipment; sitting on beach with pots; loading pots carrying palm leaves; woman cooking; mother bathing child in sea; fishing and returning from fishing; father rocking baby in cradle; pigs eating; bringing in slaugtered pigs; thatchers at work; Miria making fire; children playing the Cuscus game; woman carrying firewood in net on head; cooking food under the house; firing pots; men carrying bananas; children playing with model canoes; children playing Paro Paro; girls playing the snake game; drinking from cane. Places or buildings include: church interior; Delena [mission] house; Delena teachers house; group outside Delena church; Maiva; Morabi village; house with steps for dog; Geabada village; Vanuabaka house; Hisiu Wubu; the grave house; place of Tauraki's murder. Also includes: cargo of pots on canoe; examples of traditional dress; a captured Dugong; ship; Noi's treasures; thorns. Pictures taken by/received from: Harry Moore Dauncey
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