IMAGE
Nauru
- Date
- [ca 1885]
- Reference
- 1/1-003221-G
- Description
A group of Nauruan men and boys, armed with rifles, photographed ca 1885 by a staff photographer of the Auckland Star.
The carrying of rifles dates this photograph to the period of the "ten-years war", a civil conflict which began around 1878 and ended with the incorporation of Nauru into the Imperial German Protectorate of the Marshall Islands on 1 October 1888. Most of the firearms on the island were handed over to German authorities during October 1888. Sources: "Nauru", by Nancy Viviani (1970); "Nauru, 1888-1900", by Wilhelm Fabricius (1992).
Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - bottom left - 4498
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Auckland Star :Negatives
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Dry plate negatives, Group portraits, Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
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