Men, Solomon Islanders

Date: 1833

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Maurin, Antoine, 1793-1860

Reference: B-052a-009

Description: Other Titles - Costume of the inhabitants of Vanikolo. Costume of the inhabitants of Tikopia [translation] Extended Title - From: Dumont d'Urville. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe: 1826-1827-1829. Paris: 1833. Atlas 2, Pl. 185. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 235 x 343 mm

Date: 1833 - 1828

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Adam, Jean Victor, 1801-1867; Vanderburch, H, active 1833

Reference: B-052a-004-a

Description: Shows the crew of the Astrolabe, with several men of Vanikoro. Speeches are being made, while the Astrolabe, in a bay in the background is firing its guns. To the right, stands a square stone monument with pointed wooden roof From: Dumont D'Urville. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe; 1826-1828 - 182q. Paris: 1833. Atlas 2. Pl. 187. Other Titles - Inauguration of the monument erected by the Astrolabe, at Vanikoro, in honour of La Perouse [translation] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 291 x 442 mm (image) on sheet 335 x 516 mm (trimmed)

Date: [Between 1905 and 1936]

From: Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa

By: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951; Crown Studios (Auckland, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-445

Description: Photographs of Samoa taken between 1905 and 1936, some taken by Samoan photographer Alfred James Tattersall, many by unidentified photographers. One photograph is not related to the rest, showing two young women flautists from Highcliff School, Dunedin, winners of a Dunedin competition in 1918 (P 90) The earliest ones, taken in 1905, show the damage caused by a volcanic eruption, and show lava pouring into the sea. The rest of the images are related to Donald Alexander John Rutherford, headmaster at Ifi Ifi School (Leififi School) from 1919, becoming Superintendent of Schools from 1923 to 1936. There are many scenes which include his family, with his wife and four children (including Alexander Mathieson Rutherford). Many of the scenes show school activities, including the ceremonies surrounding the opening of the new school at Avele; the schools at Malifa, at Ifi Ifi, Poutasi, Aleipata and other districts; sports teams; school parades, including boy scouts linked with the schools; and groups of teachers, both European and Samoan. General views of Samoa include the construction of a fale, the interior of a fale; fishing; cocoa beans and their harvesting and drying; copra industry, with Solomon Island workers; and sowing cotton seed. Several images show the celebrations for George V's birthday; school breakup feasts; and the farewell flotilla of canoes when the Rutherford family left Samoa in 1936. Social activities of the Europeans in Samoa include tennis, large groups of bowlers, and garden parties at Vailima, the Governor's residence. Inscriptions: Album page - "The Rutherford Family, November 30th 1936 ... Sae-Tupe" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with cover bound in tapa cloth, light brown cloth spine; 25 x 30 cm

Date: [Circa 1892 to 1894]

From: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929 :Photographs of Samoa

By: Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939; Davis, John, -1893

Reference: PA1-o-548

Description: Album collected by Sir Thomas Berry Cusack Smith when British Consul in Samoa in the 1890s. Images taken by Thomas Andrew, John Davis, and unidentified photographers. Includes general scenes of life in Samoa, including the building of a fale (house); harvesting coconuts; fishing; canoes; boat races; and picnic scenes. Two photographs show the bombardment of Luatuanuu in August 1894. Numbers of portraits of people associated with the British Consulate, including various members of the Royal Navy; young European women; Fijian men, including Sir John Thurston, Governor of Fiji; and one of a Solomon Islander in native dress. Other Titles - British Consulate, Samoa Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark grey album, black spine and corners, lettered in gold "British Consulate, Samoa", 25 x 30 cm

Date: 1944-1945

By: New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Air Force; Evatt, Gerald Sinclair, 1906-1981

Reference: PAColl-0338

Description: Photographs of the Japaneses capitulation in South East Asia and the Pacific, particularly Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. They include a number of photographs of Japanese prisoners of war being marched to camps; the signing of surrender documents by Australian officers; painting Japan Surrenders on the underside of RAAF plane wings to inform Japanese forces; the announcement of the Japanese surrender by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten in Singapore; the Duke of Gloucester, Governor General of Australia, visiting troops; a Japanese tank on fire; and earlier photographs of Allied forces on Bougainville in 1944. The photographs are nearly all official Royal New Zealand Air Force and are captioned on the reverse. Also included with the collection is a copy of New Zealand Freemason frm May 1977 which includes a photograph of the NZEF Masonic Association meeting in 1918 in France.. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1793

By: Hogg and Company; Thornton, (Mr), active 1780s-1790s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-111-061

Description: Two men from New Guinea and from the Solomons. They are standing in a landscape that includes an erupting volcano Trimmed to edge of engraved area. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: 1 print (2 ill.); engraving, b&w 165 x 199 mm

Date: [ca 1897]

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: PA1-f-195-35

Description: Views of the (Solomon Islands?) and Suva, Fiji, circa 1897, taken by unknown photographers. The upper photograph (PA1-f-195-35-1) shows a man and a woman seated before a thatched hut (in the Solomon Islands?). The lower photograph (PA1-f-195-35-2) is of Suva, Fiji. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Two photographic prints mounted on album page, 416 x 286 mm (page size)

Date: 1833 - 1828

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Adam, Jean Victor, 1801-1867; Vanderburch, H, active 1833

Reference: B-052a-004

Description: Shows the crew of the Astrolabe with several men from Vanikoro, standing in rows, making speeches. The Astrolabe is in the background in a bay, its guns firing. To the right is a square stone monument with a pointed roof, erected in memory of the French captain, La Perouse, whose wrecked ship had been found near this spot From: Dumont D'Urville. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe; 1826-1828 - 182q. Paris: 1833. Atlas 2. Pl. 187. --Same: 2nd copy, hand-coloured (trimmed). Other Titles - Inauguration of the monument erected by the Astrolabe at Vanikoro, in honour of La Perouse [translation] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 295 x 445 mm (image) on sheet 363 x 550 mm

Date: ca1880s-1890s

From: Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922 :Maori and Polynesian photographs

By: Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Davis, John, -1893; Burton, Alfred Henry, 1834?-1914; A & W (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-223

Description: Compiled by S Percy Smith. Album includes 42 pages of photographs of Samoan scenery, towns, buildings, and portraits. Photographers represented include Burton Brothers, Thomas Andrew, J Davis, and A & W. As well as Samoa, this album includes photographs of men and one woman in the Solomon Islands; their ceremonial dress, weapons, and a house with an ornately woven patterned wall, and thatched roof. The last two photographs show men with weapons, wearing masks. Several photographs show images relating to Robert Louis Stevenson. One (on page 32) shows "R L Stevenson & party". Stevenson and his wife with European and Samoan men and women are seen standing at the back of a large group on the steps of the verandah at Vailima. The verandah is draped with fern leaves. The group seated in front on the stairs includes Samoan men, mostly holding axes, and a group of sailors holding musical instruments. Other scenes relating to Stevenson show his house (Vailima), and his tomb on Mount Vaea. Inscriptions: Album page - "From Mr S. Percy Smith" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured black cover, leather corners and spine; 37 x 28 cm

Date: 1941, 1943-1944

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-115

Description: Most photographs have captions. Include: Members of NZ Flying Boat Squadron at Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides); RNZAF mobile workshop at Guadalcanal; Lt Crass & Lt Barrow with Solomon Islanders; aerial photo of Stirling Island and Blanche Harbour; yachts at Falamai, Mono Island; Treasury Islands Yacht Club race; ammunition dump at Guadalcanal; NZ airmen in Solomons. Various views of Bougainville Island and nearby smaller islands - Sohana Island and Buka Passage, Buka Island, Kieta and Kieta Harbour, Teop Island and harbour, Petats Island, Numa Numa Beach, Arawa Bay. Church service; Fijian force in Bougainville jungle; ration drop; MV Malaita at Numa Numa; front page of Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1 Dec 1941; Skotolan Mission Station at Buka; Japanese transport burning as a result of American bombing (near shoreline at Tassaforonga); sketch maps of New Georgia showing Roviana Lagoon and Munda Airfield, and map of Solomon Group showing Japanese positions before American drive in 1943 (commando operations); National Patriotic store at Guadalcanal; Admiral Chester W Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief of Pacific Fleet, conferring award at Guadalcanal; Solomon islander being dressed by American medical officer, 1943; unloading operations at Falamai, Mono Island, Nov 1943 Quantity: 58 b&w original photographic print(s).

From: Sandys, Edward Roper Stapleton, b 1845 :[Seven charcoal drawings of New Zealand, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. ca 1888-1889]

Reference: C-169-009

Description: Shows a Solomon Islander on a river in an outrigger canoe. The scene is shown through thick vegetation on the river bank Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - E S [in charcoal]; Verso - top centre - In the Solomon Islands [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Charcoal on paper, 620 x 480 mm Provenance: Previously in a private collection belonging to descendants of the artist

From: Sandys, Edward Roper Stapleton, b 1845 :[Seven charcoal drawings of New Zealand, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. ca 1888-1889]

Reference: C-169-006

Description: Shows a Solomon Islander, holding a spear, standing beside a huge vine-covered tree, within dense vegetation. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - E Sandys [in charcoal]; Verso - top centre - Solomon Islands [in charcoal] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Charcoal on paper, 620 x 480 mm Provenance: Previously in a private collection belonging to descendants of the artist

Date: 1880 - 1899

From: Hodgkins family :[Album of sketches 1880s]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; Nerli, Girolamo Pieri Pecci Ballati, 1860-1926

Reference: E-311-q-012

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Solomon Islander, `Moriarty' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper glued to album page 259 x 161 mm.

Date: 1833 - 1827

By: Arago, Jacques Etienne Victor, 1790-1854; Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-

Reference: B-052a-016

Description: Tikopians escorting French sailors ashore. A scene from the visit in 1827 of Dumont d'Urville. A canoe is pulled up on the beach to the left, and two bush-clad bluffs tower over a more distant beach. Trimmed to edge of printed border Other Titles - View of the beach at Tikopia [translation] Extended Title - Plate from: Dumont d'Urville, J S C Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe. Atlas [historique], pl. 173. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-col., 220 x 347 mm

Date: 1888

By: Sandys, Edward Roper Stapleton, 1845-

Reference: C-075-012

Description: A riverside scene, with a standing European sailor talking to two Solomon Islanders who are seated at the foot of a large tree. Palms, a canoe shelter and a dwelling are to the right Inscriptions: Signed: E. Sandys Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Charcoal sketch, 420 x 585 mm on sheet 480 x 635 mm

Date: 1827 - 1840 - 1828 - 1845

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Fuchs, Charles, 1803-1874

Reference: A-340-060

Description: Shows head and shoulders portraits of four young men of Tikopia in the Solomon Islands. All except the figure at lower left are tattooed and bearded. The figure at lower left wears a necklace, and the man at upper right wears a disc-shaped pendant on a cord around his neck. The two right hand figures each wear a gold earring. Other variations of this image show the figures in reverse. Other Titles - Inhabitants of the island of Tikopia Sainson made the original drawings for these subjects in 1827 or 1828. An example of this image by Fuchs and Honegger, but in reverse, was published in 1845, in Heinrich Rudolf Schinz' "Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen des Menschen der verschieden en Rassen und Stamme nach den neuesten Entdeckungen und vorzuglichsten Originalien" (3rd edition, 1845). Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Handcoloured lithograph, on sheet 356 x 257 mm.

Date: 1900s

From: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PAColl-3062-3-08

Description: Group of Solomon Island men and women at a copra plantation in Samoa, photographed in the 1900s by Alfred John Tattersall. Inscriptions: Verso - top left - Labour at work on Copra Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 18.8 x 24.1 cm

Date: 1886 - 1890

From: Lister, Joseph Jackson 1857-1927 :[Lister album] 1886-1890 [Watercolours by Joseph, and possibly Isabella and Gulielma Lister]

By: Lister, Joseph Jackson (Dr), 1857-1927

Reference: E-394-f-069

Description: Profile head and shoulders view of a young Melanesian man dressed in European clothes This work seems likely to be the work of Dr Joseph Jackson Lister because of the correct anatomical terms used in the title Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title as above in pencil. Also: 'He is one of the labour people imported into Fiji. The septum of the nose and the lobe of the ear are perforated - iris brown' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil & crayon, 199 x 140 mm

Date: 1828

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Milbert, Jacques Gerard, 1766-1840; Bes, A, active 1820s?; Tastu, J, active 1828-1833

Reference: B-052a-019

Description: Village scene on Vanikoro Island, Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands, in 1828, showing the artist and a crew member (or possibly the Captain) of the Astrolabe, seven Vanikorans, a tethered pig, three dwellings, in a grove of trees, including banana and coconut. Other Titles - Manevai Village, Vanikoro, in 1828 Extended Title - From: Dumont d'Urville, J S C. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe... 1826 - 1827 - 1828 - 1829. Paris : Tastu, 1933. Atlas 2, pl.182. Dumont d'Urville visited Vanikoro in the course of his second voyage to the Pacific in 1828. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 258 x 392 mm on sheet 350 x 515 mm

Date: 1893 - 1894

From: Sellier, P :[Ten ink drawings of Pacific Islanders including Tahitians, Marquesans, Vanuatuans and Papua New Guineans, 1893 or 1894?]

Reference: A-340-046

Description: The head of a man of Santa Cruz, his nostrils threaded with flowers and a wreath of foliage on his head. he wears threaded shells or beads or seeds in his ears, and the back of his head (possibly long hair) is encased in a fabric snood[?] Other Titles - Inhabitant of the island of Santa Cruz, island of the Queen Charlotte Islands, his nostrils adorned with red flowers and his forehead (?) covered with foliage Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Reduire de 1/4; Verso - centre - Ch 2, f 62. Habitant de Santa-Cruz, ile de la Reine-Charlotte, avec les narines ornis de fleurs rouges et son front [?] couvert de feuillages Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on card, 155 x 117 mm.