Palms - Fiji

Date: 1946

Reference: Eph-A-FIJI-1946-01

Description: Menu card shows an illustration to the left of the text, of a tall palm tree against a starry night sky, with the circular outline of the moon. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on card, 235 x 150 mm.

Date: 1943

By: Kendall, Oscar John, 1909-1969

Reference: B-189-015

Description: An island scene, probably Fiji, during World War II. In the foreground is the foxhole mentioned in the title, partly concealed beneath a pile of stones. In the background are various types of trees, including palms, with the sea and mountains beyond on the left. On the right, a camp of military tents can be seen, with two covered trucks navigating the road away from the camp. A military aircraft flies overhead Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - O. Kendall / Sept 1943; Recto - bottom right - No 12 Series B [in pencil]; Verso - centre - Received from Mr H M Bacon / the sum of three pounds three shillings / 'Foxhole behind the camp' by Pte O Kendall / 28 July '44 [sales receipt] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on textured paper, 272 x 375 mm (sight) Provenance: Purchase: Dunbar Sloane, Wellington. Fine and Applied Art auction, 21 November, 2013; lot 340

Date: [ca 1950s]

By: Fiji. Public Relations Office

Reference: PAColl-0449

Description: Set of photographs of Fijian life taken by the government's Public Relations Office. They include aspects of the copra and sugar industries (transportation, milling etc); view of Nabui a peak in the Korobasabasaga range on Viti Levu; the Triangle, a park in Suva; children sitting on the lawns in front of the Leprosy Hospital supervised by Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary; a bridge carrying the King's Road over the Rewa River at Nausori; trainee teachers learning woodworking skills making furniture at college; a man having a blood sample taken in the fight against filaria (a parasitic disease); a presentation at the start of a traditional feast with whole roast pigs; two men taking part in a yaqona or kava ceremony; two pupils next to a plaque at Queen Victoria School; traditional bure (houses) at Matayalevu; Fijian policemen on parade in Suva; women performing an action song called vakamalolo; Nadi airport; a child being weighed at a clinic; the island of Bau, headquarters of Roko Tui Tailevu, the head of the district; five women in bathing suits walking along a beach at Nukulau; the wharves at Levuka and Suva; a view of Suva showing the Grand Pacific Hotel and the government buildings; an Indian ploughing with bullocks; women doing their laundry in a river; men fishing communally in a yavirau (fishdrive) where the men form a circle and drive the fish into a net; an operation underway with an European doctor and Fijian assistants at the Colonial Medical School; and a class at a school on Moturiki. Quantity: 34 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Prints 259mm x 204mm with captions on the reverse

Date: 1876

By: Gordon-Cumming, Constance Frederica, 1837-1924

Reference: C-024-015

Description: Shows a coastal settlement in a bay on Fiji in 1876, with vegetation, buildings, village life. A bonfire is burning on the beach, and people are involved in fishing. A British flag flies on a pole near a jetty, and several dwellings and buildings arranged along the shore, amongst tropical palms and other vegetation, which extends up the steep hill behind the settlement. The sea extends into the distance at the right. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [after title]: Vivat regina Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, mounted on board, 383 x 564 mm.