New Caledonia - Social life and customs

Date: 1847

Reference: Micro-MS-0370

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) negative.

Date: 1846, nd

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-180

Description: 2 letters to Pittman, 9 Feb 1846, from Nengone (New Caledonia)(16 pages), 18 Jan, [?], from Titikarveka (Rarotonga)(43 pages). These comprise a mss concerning the establishment of the mission on the New Caledonian islands of Mare and Lifou and customs and beliefs of the people there. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1923-1951

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1011

Description: Letters to her family record daily life on a mission station in New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands from the 1920s, through the depression, World War II and the post war years. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also in "Complete annotated catalogue" (Canberra : PMB, 1991) which has an index.

Date: [1944-1964]

From: Searle, Roland James 1904-1984 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5663-2

Description: Comprises letters in French from Julien Demene and Blanche Demene of Noumea (1944-1964) and includes cards and a clipping on a New Zealand Robinson living in Samoa (nd) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1870 - 1977 - 1880 - 1978

From: [Calendars for the year 1978, of approximately A3 size. 1977].

By: Hughan, Allan, 1834-1883

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-1978-1-02

Description: A calendar of views taken from the personal photographic collections of Pierre Alibert and Maxwell Shekleton. Includes photographs of Sister Marie de la Croix and her Daughters of Mary, Noumea Barracks in about 1873, entrance to a copper mine in the north, "Sans-Culottes" nickel mine, warehouse of wine merchant Mr Catalan, riflemen of the French army 1880s, music rotunda, the first large bridge in New Caledonia, vehicle park at the ammunition barracks, Chateau Waratah, Saint Louis Mission about 1875, Baie des Pecheurs about 1880, the first nickel factory in the world ca 1880. Accompanied by its original illustrated envelope. Other Titles - Allan Hughan, photographer; Album of views of New Caledonia Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Calendar of 13 openings, each page 240 x 330 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Maxwell Shekleton, Noumea, in 2004.

Date: 1872-1903, 1996

By: Robson family

Reference: MSX-4223

Description: Comprises letters to John and Annie Robson from their family and friends, with the largest component being from Maggie Robson in Noumea to her brother John Robson in Sydney and later in New Zealand; they describe their living conditions, working lives and family events. Letters from William Scott, James Riddle, Morrisby, Allan Hedley, James Burke, Robert Henderson, Mazara, Lizzie Henderson and I Hurst are included. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (49 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) Photocopied photographs accompany the text for Ann(ie) Robson, John Robson, Annie Robson and family members, and a group of Robsons (c1937)

Date: [1944-1967]

From: Searle, Roland James 1904-1984 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5663-1

Description: Comprises correspondence from Lucienne Demene, Fernand Demene and drafts of letters from Searle to Lucienne ; also includes list of items from Estate of R J Searle Language - Most of the letters are in French Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1780 - 1790

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Viero, Theodoro, 1740-1819

Reference: A-119-001

Description: Shows a Kanak woman of New Caledonia standing beside the kagou, a rare bird of the island. She is wearing a skirt of leaves and has a board strapped to her back for carrying objects, a staff in her right hand and a small bag in her left. To the right is a small house with a round roof. Derived with adjustments from an engraving 'View in the Island of New Caledonia' after William Hodges, artist on Cook's second voyage, published 1777, pl. 50. See also a close copy of this engraving drawn by Francesco Galimberti in his album Natives of America and the Pacific Islands, ca. 1786 (E-215-q-009). Title is in Italian and French See also a similar version in French, at A-466-008, drawn by Leopold Massard ('Nouvelle Caledonie. Voyage autour du monde') Other Titles - Femme de la Nouvelle Caledonie, Isle dans la Mer Pacifique. Woman of New Caledonia, island of the Pacific Ocean [transl Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Copperplate engraving 279 x 202 mm, on sheet 422 x 298 mm

Date: 1870-1874

By: Wawn, William Twizell, 1837-1901

Reference: qMS-2125

Description: Description of life and customs in various Pacific Islands, mainly the New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Loyalty, Caroline, Ascension, Mortlocks, New Britain, and Marshall groups, with many pen drawings. Publication - Pre-dates material published in Wawn, W T `The South-Sea Islanders' (London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1893) Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (158 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (32cm; brown buckram hinged-lid box) Contains pen drawings Processing information: Digitisation details - 180 digitised images

Date: 1 Jan 1850-31 Dec 1851

By: Swainson, Henry Gabriel, 1830-1892; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: MS-2096

Description: Journal kept by Swainson on board HMS `Havannah' and HMS `Bramble' on voyages between England, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Contains detailed descriptions of social life in Sydney, Wellington, Hobart and Auckland, and of the Society Islands, the Isle of Pines, Fiji and Rio de Janeiro. Includes a photograph of Swainson and an engraving of Crick Church, Northamptonshire. A typed inventory of outline of events is included. Accompanying material - Photograph of Henry Gabriel Swainson; transcript of portion of journal, Oct-Nov 1850, when Swainson was at the Isle of Pines; outline of events noted in the journal, by Lynda Scarth; note by Dorothy Swainson re provenance of journal; engraving of Crick Church, Northamptonshire Source of title - Supplied title: title on front endpaper `Private journal/Commencing Jan 1st 1850/Ending December 31st 1851/Henry Swainson/Her Majesty's Ship "Havannah"/ Sydney 1850-' Quantity: 1 volume(s) (186 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (23 cm, ½ red calf, marbled boards in red buckram hinged lid box) Transfers: Two pencil sketches (1) Hutt River (1849) signed W & HS and (2) of HMS `Havannah' at Darling Point, Port Jackson, removed to Drawings and Prints. Enlarged copy of photograph of Swainson in PS 284152.. Processing information: Digitisation details - Inserts located at the end of the digital files

Date: 1844

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

Reference: A-020-042

Description: Shows a number of artifacts from Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia including musical pipes, decorated weapon sheaths, and other handheld objects. Beside one is the note "Resembling Lictor's fasces", and another has the note "H.M.S. Bramble" alongside it (Angas is not known to have travelled on the HMS Bramble). Navigator Island / Navigators Islands is another name for the Samoan Islands. They were named Navigators Islands by Louis de Bougainville, in 1768. Other Titles - tabooing Loyalty Island Other Titles - Navigator's Islands Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 255 x 333 mm

Date: 1848 - 1854

From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-288-019

Description: Shows the mouth of a small stream emptying into a large bay, with mountains in the distance. In the left foreground is a native hut with figures standing and sitting outside it, an outrigger canoe pulled up on the riverbank and another outrigger in the stream. At the other side of the stream outlet is another hut, a canoe and three figures with staffs. There is a canoe with a sail in the near part of the bay, and a sailing ship further into the distance. Several palm trees are in parts of the foreground. No current geographical name similar to A-no-no has been found Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 170 x 250 mm. Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)