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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Archive & Special Collections MM/07/4/45 Open

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

collection SOAS Archive
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scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with Melanesian Mission 7/45, Box 40
callnumber MM/07/4/45
callnumber_txt MM/07/4/45
callnumber-sort MM/07/4/45
prefix_number 45
scb_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.
title People and places, New Hebrides [now Vanuatu] including Vanua Lava, Banks Islands
scb_date_creation c.1920 - c.1970
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 60 silver gelatin prints
format Archive
description 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.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright probably held by Melanesian Mission
language Yiddish
language_search Yiddish
scb_file_number 45
hierarchy_top_id_raw MM
hierarchy_sequence MM.0007.004.0045

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