Fijians

Date: [ca 1873-1875]

By: Gaul, John, -1876; Lindt, John William, 1845-1926

Reference: PA1-q-330

Description: Includes views New Zealand, Pacific and Australia, including images of indigenous houses and plantations, and a series of 12 studio tableau portraits of Aboriginal Australians, taken by John William Lindt in 1873-1874. Kai Colo (Fijian people) - name for the people who live in the mountainous interior of Fiji. It's literal meaning is something like "mountaineer". This information was given by Dr Vicki Lukere (Luker), specialist in South Pacific history, Victoria University, 1997. A series of 12 studio tableau portraits of Aboriginal Australians by John Wiiliam Lindt, including three not found in this album, are at Library reference PA1-q-1317 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album. Provenance: Written comments in the album indicate that it might be associated with Commodore J Goodenough RN, who was appointed as a commissioner by the Crown to investigate the events that led to the annexation of Fiji. This album was compiled by an unidentified member of the Australian Division of the Royal Navy based at Sydney in the mid 1870s. The Australian Naval Station was responsible for policing the Pacific and supporting Britain's interests in the region. The one date associated with the album (1875) as well as some of the images, suggest that it was compiled soon after the cession of Fiji to the British Crown. The two ships associated with the album, HMS Blanche and HMS Pearl, were both stationed at Sydney and both were involved with events in Fiji before and during cession. HMS Pearl was Commodore Goodenough's flagship. He was the officer in charge of the Australian Naval Station at that time. He also played an important political role in the process of cession in Fiji. In the album he and his officers are shown swimming on Ovalau. The compiler of the album on the other hand, seems to have been personally associated with HMS Blanche. There are two pictures of this ship in the album as well as pictures of memorials erected by the captain and crew to one of their members. HMS Blanche had been active against the traffic in cheap labour in the South Pacific. In 1873 her paymaster, Lieutenant Nettleton, had acted as temporary British Consul in Fiji after the recall of E B March.

Date: August-September 1989

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-o-1698

Description: Visit to Toberua, Fiji, August-September 1989. This includes - Views of Toberua Resort Hotel, its grounds and surroundings. Groups of hotel staff, children and tourists. A church home for children run by nuns (probably St Christopher's Home run by the Anglican Community of the Sacred Name). Coastal views and an island seen from the sea. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: August 1981

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-o-1693

Description: Photographs of Fiji include - Rebecca and James Fulcher's traditional Fijian wedding supplied by the Toberua Resort. Men and women weaving palm-leaf hats. Hibiscus blooms. Groups of guests at Toberua Resort. Fijian musical performers. Picnic on the beach. Festival event with large group of performers in traditional costume. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: March 1984

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-o-1701

Description: Emi and Don's village wedding, Fiji Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: [1970s]

From: Haas, Anthony Roger David, 1944-2019: Photographs and recordings

Reference: PA12-8369

Description: Views of Fiji and Tonga. Includes - Houses inhabited by Indian and Fijian families, Fiji. These are corrugated iron huts in rural settings, and larger buildings of concrete blocks with shallow curved corrugated iron roofs organised like barracks. Fijian family in front of washing on a line with a traditional thatched house in the background. Tital supplied by the Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Provenance: Donated by Mr Anthony Haas, Wellington, 2007

Date: 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

Reference: C-082-104

Description: Six men and a woman, all draped from the waist, and showing tattoos. One holds an axe, another an oar, another a bunch of bananas. Two are wearing hats Based on an ink drawing by Jules LeJeune, artist with Duperrey during his 1824-1826 visit to the Pacific. Other Titles - Natives of the Island Rotumah Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 130 x 200 mm

Date: 1982

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-o-1694

Description: Photographs of Fiji include - Visit of Phil and Jim Rose to Toberua, June 1982. Jonathan Dennis and his parents, June 1982. Garden party and military parade at the Presidential Palace, Suva, June 1982. Sailing ship full of peolple out from the shore. Johathan Dennis with family and friends. Launching ceremony for the "Adi Taberua." Michael Dennis carving the name plate for the launch, July 1982. Views of Toberua Resort garden. Michael Dennis seated on chair on beach. Guests at Toberua Resort. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1978-1980]

From: Haas, Anthony Roger David, 1944-2019: Photographs and recordings

Reference: PA12-8383

Description: Photographs showing uses coconut palm wood. Tourist views of Vanuatu. Photographs of Pacific islanders in Fiji, Tonga, and New Zealand. Tital supplied by the Library Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Provenance: Donated by Mr Anthony Haas, Wellington, 2007

Date: 2014

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs

Reference: Eph-D-FIJI-2014-01

Description: Poster shows and arrangement of text, including panels of vocabulary in Fijian and English, for phrases of greeting, proverbs, counting, months, days of the week, and simple sentences. The logoes of the collaborating groups are along the lower border. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 595 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated in 2014.

Date: 2014

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs

Reference: Eph-D-FIJI-2014-02

Description: Poster shows a montage of photographs of Fijian men and children performing traditional action songs. The logoes of the collaborating groups are along the lower border. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 595 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated in 2014.

Date: 2017

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs; New Zealand. Ministry for Pacific Peoples

Reference: Eph-D-FIJI-2017-01

Description: Poster shows a photograph of a Fijian man and woman in traditional dress, against a faint background photograph of young Fijian men and part of a large flag or banner. The supporting organisations are listed below: Pasifika Education Centre, Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland Emergency Management, Ministry of Education, K'Aute Pasifika Services, Wellington Fijian Cultural Group, Fiji High Commission, Canterbury Fiji Community, National Library of New Zealand, Ministry of Social Development, Voqa Kei Viti Aotearoa, SOQOSOQO-NI Cakaudrove. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 595 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated in 2017

Date: [ca 1905-1941]

From: Beattie family: Autograph and postcard albums

By: Beattie, Mary, 1886-1944

Reference: MSX-9662

Description: Postcard album compiled by Mary Beattie, nee Mckenzie, wife of James Herries Beattie, with inscribed date "September 4th, 1905". Many postcards contain messages on the reverse of the card and others also have annotations on the front. Most of the postcards appear to be used and posted. Includes postcards captioned: - Group of Fijian Warriors - Herriot Row and Royal Terrace. Dunedin, N.Z. - Dunedin. Showing Electric Car Route - Dunedin, from Herriot Row - Princes St. Dunedin, Looking South (Muir & Moodie, No. 6084) - St Hildas Collegiate School, Dunedin (Muir & Moodie, No. 360P) - New Railway Station, Dunedin - Knox Church and Manse, Dunedin - Dunedin. Reservoir - A Picturesque spot in Botanical Gardens. Dunedin - Water of Leith, Dunedin, N.Z. - Municipal Buildings, Glasgow - Otago University, Dunedin - New Zealand Wild Flowers - Botanical Gardens, Dunedin - No. 638. Maori Chief. (Photo by N.Z. Tourist Dept.) - No. 1336 Full Blood, Maori Woman (Muir & Moodie) - Fijian Type (72387 J. W. Waters, Suva, Fiji) - Preparing for dinner - The Breakwater, Timaru - Maori Beauties (Photo by Denton) - Greetings to Father and Mother - Half-Moon Bay, Stewart Island, N.Z. - Lake Kanieri, 12 Miles from Hokitika - Wharf, Bluff, N.Z. - The Bluff - Rough Sea - Bluff Harbour - Lake Brunner - Rolleston Glacier. Otira Gorge. N.Z. - Otira Gorge N.Z. - Buller Gorge - Fern Arch, Buller Gorge. N.Z. - Orangipuka Creek. Lake Brunner - Arnold River near Lake Brunner - Mount Earnslaw, Lake Wakatipu, N.Z. - Mount Largs - Head of Lake Te Anau - Lake Te Anau - Lake Hankinson - Middle Fiord - Lake Te Anau - Diamond Lake, Paradise - Lake Te Anau - On Lake Te Anau - Opawa River. Blenheim - Glen Dhu. Lake Wanaka - Ellaline Terriss [portrait] - Bushscenery, Green Point, Bluff - Madras St Bridge Chch - George Friedrich Handel - Coast of Port Erin, Isle of Man - Mount Tasman, 11, 475 feet and Hochstetter Ice Fall Southern Alps N.Z. - Harris Falls. Routburn - Paradise - Spoonbill, & Blue Duck - Shotover Bridge Arthurs Point - Queenstown New Zealand - Heavens Gate. Paradise - The Cattewater, from Smeaton Tower, Plymouth - A backwater at Richmond (Surrey) - A Charming Nook, Recreation Ground, New Plymouth - Ann Hathaway's House - Franz Peter Schubert - Cataract, George Sound, N.Z. - Lion Cubs Age Two Months - Lake Wakatipu - Pigeon Island, Wakatipu, N.Z. - Dunedin - Victoria St. Bridge, Christchurch, N.Z. - Soldiers Monument Mount Gambier - Fijian Fire Walkers Preparing the Oven - Cathedral Square, Christchurch, N.Z. - Horizontal Pillars, Giant's Causeway - Rothesay Castle - Old Stirling Bridge - Bathing Station, Aberdeen - Balmoral Castle - Lake Wakatipu and Remarkables, Queenstown, N.Z. - Solitary Cove, Dusky Sound, N.Z. - Alexandra S. - of Gold Digging Fame - The Avon & Canterbury Rowing Clubs, Christchurch - The Omut, Riverton, 1905 - Dunedin from across Harbour - Miss Nina Boucicault [portrait] And various portraits, including cats and kittens, and Christmas greeting cards. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Bound postcard album with postcards mounted in precut slits in album leaves. Processing information: Description updated 1 November 2023 following information provided by a staff member/researcher, as part of reparative description work.

Date: 1980-1981

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-o-1692

Description: Photographs of Fiji include - A Fijian event probably at the Toborua resort, 1980. Groups of Fijians and Europeans. Older European group in a restaurant. Fijian fishermen coming from the sea with their catch. European and Fijian children. Birthday party. Boatloads of Sunday school children visiting from Bau. Bishops Jabez Bryce (of the Anglican Diocese of Polynesia) and Peter at a confirmation service in Holy Trinity Cathesral, Suva. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: October 1982

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-o-1695

Description: Photographs of Noumea include - An event with performances. Ocean views and a lighthouse. Views of Noumea and some of its colonial buildings. Photographs of Fiji include - Ratu Inoki's christening. Shiu Ram's funeral. Performances and people at Dromuna. Lunch during visit of Ratu Va and some of the Lomaviti chiefs. Opening of the meeting of the Great Council of Chiefs at Bau by Queen Elizabeth II, 30 October 1982. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1980]

From: Haas, Anthony Roger David, 1944-2019: Photographs and recordings

Reference: PA12-8397

Description: Photographs of Fiji. These include - Furniture and other items made from coconut palm wood. A woman holding hybiscus flowers. A young man holding a long handled blade, and riding a horse on a coral beach. A woman preparing fish in a basin. Portraits of two Indian girls. Tital supplied by the Library Quantity: 7 colour original transparency/ies 35mm strips comprising 16 images. Provenance: Donated by Mr Anthony Haas, Wellington, 2007

Date: 1984-1985

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-f-307

Description: Includes - Event at the Heritage, Mount Cook. This included horses, carts, coaches, early motor vehicles, morris dancers, people in tents, and dinner in the hotel. A plane trip to mountain snow fields. Interior of a neo-gothic church. Friends, family and flower arrangements. Views of the Wellington south coast. Two storied Edwardian houses moved from kelburn Parade to the grounds of Victoria University. Unidentified coastal and other scenic views. Event proably in Mount Cook School, Wellington, that may have something to do with teaching and the Maori language. Event at a marae (this may be Te Ore Ore Marae near Masterton). Group of women meeting in the sitting room of a house. Trip with a Fijian woman. Places include - The Chateau Tongariro and the ski fields on Mount Ruapehu. St Faiths Church and monument, Ohinemutu, Rotorua. The model pa and thermal areas, Whakarewarewa. An exhibition of Maori carving and weaving. Tourist event involving sheep. Lake Tarawera. Waiuru Army Museum. At the Dennis' house in Wellington. Fijian people, November 1984. People on a yacht in Suva Harbour and views of Suva Harbour, November 1984. Toberua Island, and resort facilities on the island. Plants, fruit and flowers, Fiji. Wellington's south coast, hilly farmland, mountains and a sunrise. Baring Head lighthouse. Wellington Harbour and coasts. Wairarapa coast and seals. Michael Dennis and his wife, Wellington, March 1985. Birthday party for Lawrence Dennis, March 1985. New Plymouth Girls High School centennial, Easter 1985. Visit with friends to Picton and the sounds, February 1985. Palliser Bay, April 1985. Hamilton lake and Gleneden, May 1985. Te Kaahui Kohangareo christmas party, December 1985. Visit to the Whanganui River and Matahini Marae, March 1985. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: March 1983

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-o-1699

Description: Event marking the opening of a boarding bure at Moturiki School, Nasauvuki Village, Moturiki Island, eastern Fiji. The event involved a kava ceremony, performers, a crowd of adults and children, two European men, and sports. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1914-[1969]

From: Luxford, Nola, 1895-1994 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9548-25

Description: Nola Luxford and her New Zealand family and friends from ca 1914-1974. Most of these photographs are from the earlier period. Nola Luxford in Australia and New Zealand, 1946-1947. Postcards of New Zealand. These include Saint Matthews Church, Hastings, 1936. Handcoloured night views of Napier. Pukekura Park, New Plymouth. Bath House, Rotorua. Maori women cooking, Whakarewarewa. Wellington and harbour. Mount Naguruhoe. Milford Sound. Cornet Peak Skifield. Blue and Green lakes. Pack of commercial tourist photographs of Napier. Foreign postcards kept because they include letters to Nola. Official photographs of Fiji and Fijians, 1960s. The Queen receiving flowers from a Fijian child. Quantity: 84 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 10 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1980

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-o-1688

Description: Photographs of a holiday in Fiji. Included are - An earth oven or lovo from heating the stones to removing the cooked food. A birthday party at a resort on Toberua Island. Photographs of groups of Fijians. Tin-roofed village buildings from the sea. Europeans feasting at a resort restaurant entertained by guitar-playing Fijian singers. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: March 1983

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-o-1696

Description: Photographs of Fiji. Hurricane Oscar in action and its impact on Toberua Resort and surrounding area, 3 March 1983. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s).