People and places, Siota, Gela [now Nggela Pile and Nggela Sule, Florida Islands]

Groups include: indigenous children outside mission house; schoolboys at work in the gardens; boys outside St George's house; Thurifer and boat boy; Robert, teacher in training with young child, Martha; kindergarten class; young children in wheelbarrow; women and children saying goodbye; ordination...

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Order number: Melanesian Mission 7/23, Box 37
Date(s) of creation: c.1900 - c.1960
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id MM.07.2.23
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with Melanesian Mission 7/23, Box 37
callnumber MM/07/2/23
callnumber_txt MM/07/2/23
callnumber-sort MM/07/2/23
prefix_number 23
scb_previous_numbers 38 etc
title People and places, Siota, Gela [now Nggela Pile and Nggela Sule, Florida Islands]
scb_date_creation c.1900 - c.1960
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 61 silver gelatin prints.
format Archive
description Groups include: indigenous children outside mission house; schoolboys at work in the gardens; boys outside St George's house; Thurifer and boat boy; Robert, teacher in training with young child, Martha; kindergarten class; young children in wheelbarrow; women and children saying goodbye; ordination group, 1953; adult students in classroom; Sisters of the Cross, Taina Anne and Taina Ruth with babies, 1934; boys with newly arrived mail; Father Tempest with Siota college group. People include: James Mera of Aoba, student at St Peter's College; Rachel, bride. Events: Ordination at Siota, 1966. Activities include: doing ecclesiastical laundry; Margaret Namoi giving injection; boys rowing canoe. Places or buildings include: views of Siota including high street, water tank; St Luke's Cathedral, exterior and interior views and details; village school and school bell. Prints taken by/received from: Father MacDonald Milne.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright possibly held by Melanesian Mission
scb_file_number 23
hierarchy_top_id_raw MM
hierarchy_sequence MM.0007.002.0023