People and places, Guadalcanal, including Maravovo, Hautubu and Honiara

Groups include: Maravovo band; schoolboys; Codrington House boys with football trophy; bakers with bread; Nurse Vida with outpatients and in school sick bay, Maravovo; men on beach with remains of Japanese landing barges; class in schoolroom at St Mary's boys' school; VSO student instructing scouts;...

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Order number: Melanesian Mission 7/35, Box 39
Date(s) of creation: c.1920 - c.1960
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: Melanesian Mission 7/35, Box 39
Summary: Groups include: Maravovo band; schoolboys; Codrington House boys with football trophy; bakers with bread; Nurse Vida with outpatients and in school sick bay, Maravovo; men on beach with remains of Japanese landing barges; class in schoolroom at St Mary's boys' school; VSO student instructing scouts; students at Teacher Training College, Hautubau. People inclde: Edmund ?Kiva, teacher at St Mary's, Maravovo. Activities include: baptism; boy riding horse across bridge; carrying timber for new bridge; rebuilding school chapel after war; beating drum; blowing shell for service; farewell dance and feast. Events include: Nativity Play, Maravovo. Places and buildings include: Maravovo school; school dispensary, bridge, stock yards, cathedral and dining hall, crucifix dedicated by Bishop Steward to indigenous missioanries, church, copra shed and stone plantation, site of bombed chapel, Maravovo; Hautaubu Teacher Training College; rest house and Chinese school, Honiara; path from Kohi to Tabalia; old and new churches, ?Tasumboko; Savo from Tabalia; Theological College. Also includes: artefacts from All Saints chapel, Honiara. Prints taken by/receivied from: Teall; U S P G; Ted Marriott.
Extent: 75 silver gelatin prints
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright possibly held by Melanesian Mission.
File number: 35
Format: Archive