Marshall Islands

Date: [ca 1894]

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0009

Description: The novel is based on Moors' experience in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands as a labour recruiter for the Hawaiian Board of Immigration. The title page states that it is `from the diary of John T Bradley'. Preface by Arthur Mahaffey. The novel was never published. As an agent for the Hawaiian Board of Immigration he made several voyages to the Gilbert Islands and Marshall Islands around 1880 to recruit labourers for Hawaii's sugar plantations. In 1883 he settled in Apia, Western samoa, and became a successful trader and planter. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also in "Complete Annotated Catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991) which has an index.

Date: 1873-1877

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1221-1

Description: Translations of letters from the missionaries Hezekiah Aea (includes some church reports), J D Ahia, S Alika, Samuela P Kaaia, Berita Kaaikaula, J W Kanoa, Simeon Kanakole, and Samuela Kamakahika. Letters written from mission stations in the Marshall, Gilberts and Caroline Islands. Includes a reminiscence by Mary Kahelemauna of her life on Mille in the Marshalls. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1873-1880

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0513

Description: Clippings of articles by Kubary from Polish newspapers and journals, concerning the Caroline Islands, Samoa, Rarotonga, the Tokelaus, Ellice and Marshall Islands. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also "Complete annotated catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991) which has an index. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Supplied by Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Canberra

Date: 1864-1898

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1221-2

Description: Translations of letters from the missionaries J W Kanoa, W B Kapu, George Leleo, William Lono, Joel Mahoe, Robert Maka, Henry Nalimu, Samuela Nawaa and Zadaio Paaluhi, writing from Kosrae, thwe NMarshalls, the Carolines and the Gilberts. Also Church and parish reports, statistics and other administrative papers. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1939-1945

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-4161-01-250

Description: Series of 52 numbered and captioned photographs relating to US victory on Tarawa (New Guinea) Collection of photographs showing US war economy - production of naval and air craft, ammmunition, etc; US war cartoons published in American newspapers - by Rube Goldberg, Steinberg, Packer, J.C.H., Talburt, Mergen, Burck, and George White. Collection of miscellaneous photographs of US Marine Corps in the Pacific Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: 1790 - 1810

Reference: E-204-q-049

Description: Two standing figures. The Maori man on the left has shoulder length hair, a spear in his right hand, some moko on his face and shoulders and is wearing a loincloth. The Marshall Islands man on the right has large rings in his ears, a necklace, and grass skirt and is holding a paddle Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph, black and white, 198 x 225 mm

Date: 1984 - 1985

By: Peace Ad Committee

Reference: Eph-E-NUCLEAR-1985-03

Description: Poster compiled by Peace Ad, based on the advertisement in the Washington Post, shows the names of some 4,000 New Zealanders who signed a letter supporting the government's policy of banning nuclear powered and armed vessels from New Zealand shores, and supporting a proposal for a nuclear-free South Pacific. The Washington Post masthead appears at the top. The names of the supporters are superimposed on a pink "Ban the Bomb" logo. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Screen print, 850 x 605 mm.mm. Provenance: One copy donated by the Peace Ad Committee in 1985.

Date: 1874-1881

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1214

Description: Thirty three pamphlets, bound in one volume, compiled by Sir Arthur Gordon when Governor of Fiji and Western Pacific High Commissioner. Includes parliamentary papers and printed correspondence relating to Western Pacific islands other than Fiji, including New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides. Also, reports on the cession of Rotuma, pearl shell fisheries in the Torres Straits, blackbirding, the Intercolonial Conference of 1881; conflicts, kidnappings and murders involving the ships `Borealis', `Sandfly', `Aurora', `Leslie', `Winifred', `Miranda', `Isabelle' and `Cormorant'; reports by Commodore Wilson on murders on the New Guinea coast; reports on conditions and commerce in the islands by William Seed and Sterndale; report by Captain W H Marshall of HMS `Emerald' on the Ellice, Gilbert, Marshall and Caroline Islands, 1881. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2004

Date: 1996

By: Marshall Islands. Ministry of Social Services; Victoria University of Wellington. Department of Anthropology

Reference: Eph-D-PACIFIC-1996-01

Description: Shows a twelve month calendar. Shows the growing of food crops on the Marshall Islands, including potato, papaya, gourds, and breadfruit. Shows bunches of bananas for sale. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on card, 630 x 447 mm.

Date: 1939-1945

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-4161-01-269

Description: Photographs arranged in geographic groupings. See Place Field for locations. Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: 1887-1916

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0016

Description: The records begin with a report from a German official in Jaluit to the Duke of Bismarck, dated May 6 1887, stating that local German dirms had suggested that the German Protectorate of the Marshall Islands should be extended to cover Nauru. A report written in Jaluit on October 31 1888 , by Herr Sonnenschein, the German Imperial commissioner in the Marshall Islands, describes the raising of the German flag on Nauru on October 2 1888. There are several extensive reports on conditions on Nauru. The remainder of the documents deal with the German administration of Nauru. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also in "Complete Annotated Catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991) which has an index.

Date: 1968-1984

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1275-7

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1852-1923

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1220

Description: Correspondence of Hawaiian missionaries and pastors, and their wives, from Ruk, Ponape, Kenan, Kosrae and Yap in Caroline Islands; Apaiang, Tabian, Tarawa, Tabiteuea, Maralei, Maiana, Butatritari in the Kiribati group; Mille, Ebon, Majuro, Jaluit, Arno, Namrik in the Marshalls; Nauru and Mortlock Islands. Also include church statistics, reports of general and committee meetings, and of mission stations; voyages of the `Morning Star' and other Mission ships; printing, publishing and postal records; education and training reports; records ofthe Women's Board of Missions. Source of title - Transcribed from item Funded by the Hawaiian Evangelical Society, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society, the Rev B G Snow, A A Sturges and Luther H Gulick and their wives sailed from Boston in 1851. In Honolulu, Rev Ephraim Clark and the Hawaiian missionaries Rev James Kekela, Daniela Opunnui and Berita Kaaikaula, joined them and sailed for the Carolines, Marshalls and Gilbert Islands. In 1852 missions were established in Kosrae and Ponapei. In 1857 George Pierson opened the Protestant mission on Ebon in the Marshalls and Hiram Bingham Jr set up a mission on Apiang, Kiribati. Bingham was replaced by Horace Taylor and Alfred Walkup in 1864, and several native Hawaiian pastors. Missionary work was gradually given up owing to changes in the sovereignty in the Micronesian islands. The last missionary to work in Kiribati was Daniel P Mahihila in Maiana until 1904. Quantity: 14 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2004

Date: 1944-1994

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1172

Description: Comprise administrative papers and publications of the Micronesia Support Committee and papers on its campaigns for political independence in Micronesia and for a nuclear-free and de-militarised Pacific. Includes: documentation and commentary on Micronesian political status negotiations, agreements and compacts 1969-1984; files on the militarization of Micronesia 1973-1986; files on the effects of nuclear tests in the Pacific 1944-1984; and on waste dumping, health and education. The research potential of the collection is strengthened by Johnson's informed selection of press articles from a range of newspapers and periodicals. Source of title - Transcribed Giff Johnson, a professional journalist, helped form the Micronesia Support Committee in Honolulu in 1975 and edited its journal until the Committee merged with the Pacific Concerns Resource Centre in 1983. Quantity: 17 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2002

Date: Jan 1877-Jan 1900

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1205-2

Description: Alphabetical file under `D - Old Deeds and Documents'. Originals and copies in German, English and Polynesian languages. Also, reports on Pacific Islands (Marshall Group) in tracking area, accounting records, mortgages, conveyances, registrations. Under `H (H W Henderson) Agreemants with Pacific Islands Company. National Archives of Australia number is MP1174/1/173. Language - Also documents in a variety of Pacific Island languages. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

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

Date: [191-?]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-003208-G

Description: Outrigger canoe on the beach, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean. Photograph taken circa 1910s by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

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

Date: 1984

By: Debenham, Pamela Elizabeth, 1955-; Lake, Julian Leicester, 1947-

Reference: Eph-E-NUCLEAR-1984-01

Description: Shows a colourful "Hawaiian" shirt featuring various Pacific sites which have been used for nuclear testing. Each site shows a mushroom cloud: Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, Mururoa, Kwajalein Atoll, Wotho Atoll, Eniwetok Atoll. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Screen print, 910 x 660 mm. Provenance: Donated by Bill Lake in 2000.

Date: 1823 - 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

Reference: C-082-124

Description: A row of four Caroline Islands men, all dressed in their characteristic costume. The Pingelap man on the left has tattoos, his hair in a topknot, a loin cloth and necklaces and holds a paddle. The next man on the left has different tattoos and his hair loose. To the right of centre is a third man wearing a waist band, his tattoos on his upper body. On the far right is a man in a coolie-style hat (circular and rising to a central point) and a tunic. Based on an ink drawing by Jules LeJeune, artist with Duperrey during his 1822-1824 visit to the Pacific. This watercolour version was prepared by Chazal and engraved as Plate 57 for L. I. Duperrey's Voyage ... sur la Coquille ... 1822-1825. Histoire du voyage. (Paris, 1826) 'Penelape' is modern Pingelap. 'Aouera' may be the modern Anoun. Iros is a common local name for island and could either be part of the Caroline or Marshall Islands Other Titles - Archipelago of the Caroline Islands. Native of Pingelap. Native of Aonera. Inhabitants of Iros Island. [translation] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 250 x 380 mm