MANUSCRIPT
Wawn, William Twizell, 1837-1911: Amongst the Pacific Islands
- 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
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Microfilm copies available in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room. Use MS-Copy-Micro-0326.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 volume(s) (158 pages), Manuscripts, Holograph (32cm; brown buckram hinged-lid box), Illustration: Contains pen drawings
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UnknownSketches of Mokilese men and women
Date: 1873-1874
From: Wawn, William Twizell, 1837-1911: Amongst the Pacific Islands
Reference: qMS-2125-143
Description: Sketches of tattoos on Mokilese men and women Quantity: 1 piece. Physical Description: Ink sketch
Native jaws harp and weapons from New Britian
Date: 1873
From: Wawn, William Twizell, 1837-1911: Amongst the Pacific Islands
Reference: qMS-2125-115
Description: Items sketched include a native jaws harp, axe with an iron head and a club with a perforated green stone head. Other items sketched on this manuscript page but not part of this image are a sling and stone sketched at full size and a male portrait of a New Britian native Quantity: 1 piece. Physical Description: Ink pen sketch 200mm x 130mm, on page 200mm x 325mm
Sketch of man and women of New Caledonia
Date: 1870
From: Wawn, William Twizell, 1837-1911: Amongst the Pacific Islands
Reference: qMS-2125-013
Description: Sketch depicts one man, three women and a child. Page is numbered nine and is the thirteenth page in the volume Quantity: 1 piece. Physical Description: Black ink sketch 200mm x 210mm, on page 200mm x 325mm