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Landscape format. [Fijians in neat row with dark jackets and white skirts with tooth-edged hems, with European in uniform]

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Landscape format. [Two Europeans in uniform in front of them].

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[No print]. [Missing].

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[Two buglers and a drummer].

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Landscape format.

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80 x 55 mm. A view of the sunset over the water.

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75 x 50 mm.

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775 x 55 mm.

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Contains Kodachrome slides, processed in Australia and arranged by processing number.

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Contains transparencies 40 x 40 mm in Kodak Readymounts; no processing number available. The Wainimala River is in the interior of Viti Levu. The other place names have not been found on any map of Fiji, but as these are the only slides with these measurements, it has been assumed that they were all taken in the same area.

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350 x 250 mm. No print.

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288 x 236 mm. Photo shows: Mr Anthony Greenwood, Colonial Secretary, addressing the Fiji Constitutional Conference in the Colonial Office at Marlborough House. By his side is Mrs. Eirene White, Minister of State for Colonies.

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153 x 116 mm. The caption on the reverse reads '(2). Fijian and Indian students at work under the supervision of the Fijian Craftwork Master. One full afternoons work per week is devoted to carpentry by all male students. Students are taught in particular how to teach crafts in the schools'.

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163 x 114 mm. The caption on the reverse reads ' (3.) A demonstration lesson in progress. A class of Fijians attend the college regularly to be taught by a Fijian member of the staff (left). Students observe and make notes on teaching techniques.

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Half-plate (landscape format). Mound covered with cloth and stones among undergrowth].

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Half-plate (landscape format). [Cup on cloth on top of mound in the forest].

Scope and Contents 228 x 175 mm. A view showing a European officer in charge of a squad of the Fijian police (unarmed and dressed in white). Behind them, and largely obscured, stands a squad of the armed constabulary in blue blouses and white sarongs cut into a serrated pattern round the hem. Formed in the early 1870s, the force was used extensively against the hill peoples of the interior, and in the days of King Cakobau, this small army was said to have numbered 1400 men. The Europeans standing in the...

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288 x 235 mm. A view of the crowded Fijian section, showing its produce such as spears, clubs, cloth and cotton.

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Print at RCMS 353/2/226.

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197 x 154 mm. A group portrait of a Fijian family, ranging from a white-haired grandfather, to two young children, posed against a backdrop of palm-leaves.

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195 x 141 mm. A view showing a posed group of young Fijian women.

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Print at RCMS 353/2/224.

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200 x 135 mm. A view showing a small group of European officers and Fijian men of the Armed Native Constabulary posed in front of a Fijian house. This beautifully-constructed bure is illustrated in ‘Cyclopaedia of Fiji’ published in 1907. It was built for the visit of the royal princes, the Duke of Clarence and George, Prince of Wales, who visited Fiji in H.M.S. 'Bacchante' in 1881.

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212 x 178 mm. A view taken at Bureta, Ovalau, showing a group of Fijians standing beside the ‘lali’ with village houses and hills in the background. The ‘lali’ consists of a hollowed–out wooden log which is beaten with a wooden mallet; formerly used to gather warriors to war, it is now only used to bring participants to feasts and other ceremonial occasions. For a modern photograph of the ‘lali’, see Y3091E/85.

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Half-plate. Sir Everard Im Thurn's Collection at Suva.