People and places, New Hebrides [now Vanuatu] including Vanua Lava, Banks Islands

Groups include: Tikopian boys at Vureas school; Raga people, Pentecost Island; G F S girls, group on cliff side, "Leaving Mota"; women and children, Rowa; Dr Mackereth, Bishop Alfred Hill and Commissioner Wilkie; pupils and teachers, Vureas; St. Alban's schoolboys with teacher, Oliver, Vanua Lava. P...

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Order number: Melanesian Mission 7/45, Box 40
Date(s) of creation: c.1920 - c.1970
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: Melanesian Mission 7/45, Box 40
Summary: Groups include: Tikopian boys at Vureas school; Raga people, Pentecost Island; G F S girls, group on cliff side, "Leaving Mota"; women and children, Rowa; Dr Mackereth, Bishop Alfred Hill and Commissioner Wilkie; pupils and teachers, Vureas; St. Alban's schoolboys with teacher, Oliver, Vanua Lava. People include: Mary Salt with pupil at Torgil; men with boat at Steep Cliff Bay, Pentecost Island; Sister Bayly with patients at Lama Lana [Lamalanga] hospital, Raga district, Pentecost Island; Rev James Edwards and Mam Ben Bane, Vila; Nell Fagan and Sister G E Bayly at Lamalanga; Mr and Mrs Francis' house, Lamalanga; indigenous christian, Daniel with wife and child; teacher with wife and child; Agnes ?Bomare; Resident Commissioner Wilkie of New Hebrides at Pentecost; Rev Esuva Din, pastor of St Peter's, Vanua Lava, with wife, May Erica, and children. Events include: Aneca leading Palm Sunday procession, Torgil; dedication of church, Santo, 1966 ; dedication of school, Pentecost, 1966; wedding feast for Marg Ingale and George Worek; visit of French High Commissioner, M Biros, to Vureas, 1964. Activities include: husking coconuts, Vureas, 1918; girls from Torgil school weaving baskets, some for export; missionary and indigenous men building house at Torgil; wrapping up body in burial mats, Tavolavola, Aoba Island; playing guitar; art classes. Places or buildings include: Torgil Girls school, Aoba, including chapel under construction and girls' houses; ship in bay, Lotoro, Maewo island; Vureas School, Vanua Lava. Prints taken by/received from: possibly Walter John Durrad, Vureas school, 1911 - 1918, published in book; E H Healy; J W Beattie.
Previous numbers: Beattie No.s 263, 293 Prints of image no.s 236, 237, 262, 264, 266 and 282, from album of snapshots (File 2) Previously File 29.
Extent: 60 silver gelatin prints
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright probably held by Melanesian Mission
Language: Yiddish
File number: 45
Format: Archive