Fiji - Social life and customs

By: Faivres Art Studios

Reference: PA7-17-02

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1900-1970

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1017

Description: Born in Suva, Fiji Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also in "Complete annotated catalogue" (Canberra : PMB, 1991) which has an index.

Date: 1968-1993

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1084

Description: Comprises microfilms of theses written by students studying for the Diploma in Divinity, and the degrees of Bachelor of Divinity and the Master of Theology. The subject matter mainly concerns Christianity and the organization of churches of various denominations (but particularly Methodist) in the Pacific Islands, with a strong anthropological emphasis in describing the organization and customs of various Island communities. Language - Occasional theses in French Source of title - Transcribed The Pacific Theological College, situated in Suva, Fiji, is an ecumenical institution founded in 1966 to provide Pacific churches with a highly trained ministry. In 1987 it began a Master of Theology course in Pacific Church History. The thesis is an integral part of the College's Bachelor of Divinity and Master of Theology courses. Quantity: 33 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1996

From: Lindt, John William 1845-1926 :Photographs of a Fijian fire ceremony

Reference: PA7-17-10-2

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.

By: Lindt, John William, 1845-1926

Reference: PA7-17-07

Description: Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Fiji. Beqa Island. Fire Ceremony. The Rush.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - J. W. Lindt, Melbourne. 2077 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.

Date: [19--]

From: Hocart, Arthur Maurice, 1883-1939 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0060-30

Description: Miscellaneous notes include: Definitions; Descriptions of sharks; Answers to question "What will you do when you leave school?"; Letters in Fijian written 1911-1914; Map of "Fidji" [sic]; Notes taken from field notebooks Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: See inventory for full description of contents of this folder.

Date: [19--]

From: Hocart, Arthur Maurice, 1883-1939 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0060-41A

Description: Notebook of drawings from Fiji including houses, canoes, sinnet work and tapu patterns; Lakeba listing the names of house sites and occupants Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1872-1877

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 : Music scores, programmes and other papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-5291

Description: Posters of D A De Maus' entertainments at Crickmore's Assembly Rooms, Port Chalmers (1872) and at Foresters' Hall, Port Chalmers (1877) Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 1933-1934

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1027

Description: Unpublished manuscript of 65 pages, containing letters written during her first Pacific study in the Lau Islands of Fiji. Letters describe local acitivities, customs, food, agriculture, clothing and daily life in general. Laura Maud Thompson, an American anthropologist, made three major studies in the Pacific: the Southern Lau Islands (1933-1934); Guam (1938-1939) and Hawaii (1940-1941). Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available..

Date: 1930

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-0557

Description: Photographs of the Pacific Islands (mostly taken in Fiji) and New Zealand, taken in the 1930s by William Hall Raine of Wellington. Quantity: 285 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [between 1942 and 1943]

By: Parsons family

Reference: PAColl-9172

Description: Photographs of Fiji taken while Maurice Alonzo Parsons was serving in the 8th New Zealand Infantry Brigate in the Pacific (part of the 2nd NZEF Pacific, also the 3rd New Zealand Division). Includes photographs relating to Fiji landscapes, scenaries and plants; native Fijians, Chinese and Indian residents; portraits and group photographs that relates to army life in Fiji. Some buildings in Fiji are included. Collection also contains some photographs of the army in Egypt and the surrounding scenaries. PAColl-9172-033 to PAColl-9172-036 form a panoramic view of the Suva Harbour. Most photographs are annotated and include names of individuals in the photographs. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Collection arranged by themes presented among the photographs: Fiji landscapes and scenaries, native Fijians, Chinese and Indian residents, buildings, ships, portraits and photographs relating to army life in Fiji, and further photographs relating to Egypt. Quantity: 128 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints Provenance: Purchase, 2007 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-8883 : Parsons family: Papers relating to the Second World War.

Date: 1855

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0029

Description: Four letters giving vivid accounts of Harvey's visit to Tonga and Fiji during a world tour. The letters are to his sister, Hannah Harvey Todhunter and his niece Mary Christy Harvey. Dr Harvey, although interested in algae, investigated other aspects of the natural history of Tonga and Fiji, and wrote of a religious revival in Tonga and cannibalism in Fiji. (Twenty six other letters of Dr Harvey, dealing further with his world tour, which took in, inter alia, Australia and New Zealand, are in the the library of Trinity College, Dublin). Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also in "Complete Annotated Catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991) which has an index.

Date: [ca 1884-1901]

By: Pritchard, Thomas Henry, active 1884-1901

Reference: MS-Papers-0828

Description: Comprises mostly clippings of articles and verse written by Pritchard for `The Fiji times', `The Argus', `The Sydney morning herald', and `The Sun' (ca 1884-1889); also includes a manuscript, `Wit and humour and its natural characteristics'; minutes of the Fiji Annexation Committee (1887); typescript, `The Chief justices of Fiji'; and letter (22 Jun 1901). Items all relate to Fiji; society, politics and government. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter (photocopies) Processing information: Not described to folder level.

Date: 1939-1941

From: Beach family : Genealogical and personal papers of the Beach and Woodward families

Reference: 89-266-6/11

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 20 Nov-4 Dec 1944

By: Dee family

Reference: MS-Papers-6841

Description: Letter from Dee to her family in New Zealand written shortly after she arrived in Lautoka, Fiji; she describes all the happenings and events since her arrival, her accommodation in a convent, the people she works with and the people she meets, the impact of the Americans on the Fijians, her leisure activities and other concerns. She does not describe her work. Source of title - Supplied Corporal Dee served with the RNZAF during World War II as a weather watcher Quantity: 1 folder(s) (23 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms M de Joux, Khandallah, Wellington, May 2000

Date: 1875-1882

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1635

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: [ca 1941-1948]

From: Fiji Forces Association :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9783-2

Description: Contains photographs of important pieces of infrastructure, economic activities, social activities and customs of Fiji. Photographs include: Medical training and teacher training; traditional village life; public health programmes; plantations; gold mining; traditional songs; ports and shipping; copra and banana trade activities; buildings and townships; Indian immigrants. Also includes a photograph of the 20th field company of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force's A and B rugby teams Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints, with typed captions

Date: 1870-1892

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1209

Description: Comprises Turpin's diary Dec 1870-Jan 1875; draft (193 pages) of his and other early European settlers' anecdotes and narratives, dating from ca 1804; and a brief continuation of the diary from 1892. Source of title - Transcribed from the item. The volume was used originally as a personal diary by Turpin. He then used it write a draft which he he intended to publish under the title `A Programme of anecdotes, narratives and legends of Fiji'. The draft was never completed and stops abruptly in the middle of a note on Fijian fruits. Turpin then used the volume again as a diary, briefly toward the end of 1892, when he was clearing land for the CSR Company at Lakena. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP, 2004

Date: [19--]

From: Hocart, Arthur Maurice, 1883-1939 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0060-32

Description: Essays by schoolboys, Lakemba, Fiji, 1912 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1888-1926]

By: Hocart, Arthur Maurice, 1883-1939

Reference: MS-Papers-0060

Description: Papers relate to anthropological and philological researches of the Pacific. Also includes some genealogies, personal papers, unpublished drafts, literary papers, field notebooks and correspondence. Includes ethnographic notes from Fiji, Roviana, Tonga and elsewhere. Also includes literary drafts and Xerox copies of Hocart's photographs. Other - `A bibliography of A M Hocart, 1883-1939' / Rodney Needham. [Oxford, B Blackwell for the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, 1967] Relationship complexity - See Library catalogue for further A M Hocart material (PAColl-1914; qms-0963; MSX-5207; MS-Papers-1187-073; and Series-0241 in collection MS-Group-0677. Hocart was a British ethnologist who was involved in expeditions to the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Rotuma, Wallis Island, Samoa and Tonga in the early part of the Twentieth Century. Quantity: 69 folder(s). 0.70 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter, photographs, maps (some photocopies) Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available. Indexes to notebooks available on request. Finding aids for photograph materials is available in the Photograph Archive backfile. Comprises listings of the photographs, and a copy of the "Heart of Fiji" guide to the exhibitoin of Hocart's photographs held at the National Library Gallery in 1993.. Processing information: This record was updated in March 2019 to highlight backfile guides to the materials.