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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Archive & Special Collections MM/07/2/35 Open

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

collection SOAS Archive
id MM.07.2.35
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with Melanesian Mission 7/35, Box 39
callnumber MM/07/2/35
callnumber_txt MM/07/2/35
callnumber-sort MM/07/2/35
prefix_number 35
title People and places, Guadalcanal, including Maravovo, Hautubu and Honiara
scb_date_creation c.1920 - 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 75 silver gelatin prints
format Archive
description 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.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright possibly held by Melanesian Mission.
scb_file_number 35
hierarchy_top_id_raw MM
hierarchy_sequence MM.0007.002.0035

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