Tikopia

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: [ca 1908-1920]

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2622

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1990s?

From: Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12157-039

Description: Annotated draft chapters for a book about traditional songs from various Pacific Islands, possibly relating to Orbell's unpublished book 'Islands of Song'. The chapters are organised by island groupings. Those in this folder relate to Tikopia, Tonga, the Tuamotu archipelago, and Tuvalu. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Annotated typescripts Processing information: From box 3 in the donor's list.

Date: 1957-2000

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1180

Description: The tribute includes lists of paintings and drawings, lists of `profiles' published in the Pacific Islands Monthly, Hilder family genealogy details, maps, magazines, invitations and catalogues to exhibitions, correspondence, navigation charts, descriptions of islands, indexes, passenger lists, photographs and cards, and manuscripts of Brett Hilder, including a substantial work on marine phosphorescence. Source of title - Transcribed Brett Hilder, a mariner with the Burns Philp fleet, captained passenger and cargo vessels between Sydney and the Solomon Islands after serving with the RAAF during World War II. A keen artist, Hilder painted and drew many portraits and landscapes of the people and places he visited. His work has been exhibited in Australia, the Pacific, and New York. He also wrote extensively on navigation, ports, islands and other topics. In 1964 he became Senior Captain with Burns Philp and founded the Australian Institute of Navigation. On his death he left a unique artistic legacy closely associated with the heyday of the Burns Philp era in the South Pacific. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: The research tribute was collated to accompany an exhibition of Captain Hilder's paintings at the annual dinner of the Retired Officers' Association of PNG in Sydney on 3 Dec 2000.

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: 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: 1828

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Arago, Jacques Etienne Victor, 1790-1854; Bes, A, active 1820s?; Tastu, J, active 1828-1833

Reference: B-052a-018

Description: View of the coast and hills of Tikopia, part of the Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands, seen from a distance from the sea, with the longboat from the Astrolabe in the centre right foreground being rowed towards Tikopia. Other Titles - View of Tikopia Island, Solomon Islands, in 1828. Extended Title - From: Dumont d'Urville, J S C. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe, 1826 - 1827 - 1828 - 1829. Paris; Tastu, 1833. Atlas 2, Plate 172. During Dumont d'Urville's 2nd voyage aboard the Astrolabe he visited Tikopia in 1828. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 200 x 345 mm on sheet 357 x 510 mm