Pitcairn Island - Social life and customs

Date: [1892-1894],

Reference: MS-Group-1161

Description: Comprises autograph album of verses and signatures of Pitcairn Islanders with clippings inserted; and copy of `Mutiny of the Bounty and story of Pitcairn Island, 1790-1894' (1894), also with clippings inserted Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 2 volume(s). 1 microfilm reel(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased Jan, 2003 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photograph of Daniel Christian.

Date: [ca 1814-1817]

By: Willis, H B (Lieutenant), active 1814

Reference: qMS-2259

Description: Description of Pitcairn Island, its inhabitants, difficulty of access, climate and geography. Includes sketches and two newspaper clippings, 1817. Source of title - Transcribed title Willis was a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy at the time the account and sketches were drawn. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (4 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter (38 cm; ¼ maroon calf, maroon boards) Watercolour sketch of Pitcairn Island and two pen and wash drawings of `female and male natives'.

Date: 1850

By: Mullen, George, active 1850

Reference: MS-Papers-0908

Description: Extract from letter by George [Mullen?]. Describes visit to Pitcairn aboard the "Rose". Passengers include :The Captain, a jolly Scotchman... his wife, a low, drunk Londoner... McCormack of Limerick, an Irish rebel..." Pages 2-10 held. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (9 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1856-1892

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0123

Description: The diary commences on 8 Jun 1856, the day of his arrival at Norfolk Island. It is kept in a yearbook from Norfolk's convict era, which Buffett apparently found in one of the abandoned buildings at Kingston. There is a gap between Sep 1860 and Mar 1868, when Buffett returned to Pitcairn, and between Oct 1872 and Oct 1875. After 1879, other hands appear in the writing, and the death of Buffett is recorded in 1891. Records shipping, births, marriages, deaths, weather, whale hunting and other events. Also includes hymn texts, a description of a dream, the laws and regulations of Pitcairn, recipes, poems, copies of letters and Commissariat details. John Buffett arrived on Pitcairn Island in the whaler `Cyrus' in 1823. He married Dorothy Young, daughter of Midshipman Edward Young, a `Bounty' mutineer. In 1856 Buffett moved to Norfolk Island with 193 other Pitcairners on the ship `Morayshire'. 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: 1825 - 1835 - 1838 - 1836 - 1843

From: Various artists :[66 engravings of Oceanian subjects, including Tahiti, Marquesas, Tonga, Pitcairn, Vanuatu, and Polynesia in general. 1838-1843].

By: Beechey, Frederick William (Capt), 1796-1856; Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842

Reference: A-318-036

Description: Shows a group of women and two men in sailor shirts in and around dwellings in a bush clearing. Two women are cooking an animal over a fire and another holds a child. One of the houses (the one on the right) has two storeys, and there is a rain barrel beside it. There is a precipice in the centre distance. Plate 141 in Domeny de Rienzi's book (but appears to be missing from ATL's French edition). Based on a drawing by Frederick William Beechey Other Titles - Polynesia - Interior of Pitcairn Island Extended Title - From G L Domeny's "Oceania o quinta parte del mondo revista geografica ed etnografica della Malesia, della Micronesia, della Polinesia e della Melanesia ...". Venezia, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1838-43. (Italian edition of his "Oceanie ...". Paris, Firmin Didot freres, 1835-36). Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 141 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book.. Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 141 x 216 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane Ltd Winter Antique auction, 1997, lots 462, 463, 466, 468, and 470.

Date: [1899-1938]

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11946-035

Description: Published by David Nield, Wellington, 1924. Also loose papers that were laid in to the volume, including newspaper clippings, research notes, and correspondence. The papers relate to the history of Pitcairn Island and other Eastern Pacific Islands including Easter Island. Includes a postcard from L. Nicholas, dated 1912, including Christmas greetings (from Niuafoou Island?), with an image of six unidentified women on the front, described as 'my dusky friends' in the message written on the back. Also includes a letter written to James Cowan from Parker Christian of Pitcairn Island, dated 3 July 1921, which describes life and material culture of Pitcairn Island. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Printed material, holographs.

Date: 1914-1985, 2014

By: Howse, Murray David, 1927-1986

Reference: MS-Group-2341

Description: The collection relates chiefly to Murray Howse's time on Pitcairn Island as education officer (accompanied by his family) ca 1959-1962, and to his return to Pitcairn circa 1963-1964 as part of an archaeological expedition led by Peter Gathercole. The papers also relate to Howse's ongoing association with Pitcairn Islanders, and the publication of his articles and photographic images concerning Pitcairn Island. Some material reflects Howse's interests in philately and archaeology in the Pacific. Language - Contains a few examples of Pitkern language Quantity: 19 folder(s). 4 volume(s) (containing 7 books and pamphlets). Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed material Provenance: The vendor acquired the collection from Howse's son ca 2008 Transfers: From Photographic Archive - (PH-2013-150), (PA-Group-00876).

Date: 19 February 1959-4 August 1966

By: Larson, Charles R, 1938-; Larson, Miriam Kamphoefner, -1969

Reference: MS-Papers-12214

Description: Collection comprises eight letters from Anderson Warren to Charles and Mariam Larson written between 19 February 1959 and 4 August 1966 from Pitcairn Island and New Zealand. Also includes three envelopes, one of which has a Pitcairn Island stamp, and a newsletter `Pitcairn Miscellany' dated 31 March 1965. Subjects covered in correspondence include a 1959 'Asian Flu' outbreak, Pitcairn curios (basket weaving and woodworking), stamp collecting, lack of work opportunities on Pitcairn, lack of medical services and medical evacuations from the island, shipping (supplies, tourists, declining number of ships visiting the island), taxation, schooling, Warren family living and working in New Zealand for a period, population decline on Pitcairn, and Warren family financial troubles. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Manuscripts, typescript, printed matter

Date: 1843-1850,1892-1894

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: MS-Group-1623

Description: Describes in detail, with illustrations by himself and others, trip to Hong Kong with artillery and sapper detachments, to Sydney and Wellington, where he lived at Wellington, took active part in fighting at Wanganui 1846-1847 and travelled through Taranaki, Wairarapa and Nelson-Picton. Includes loose documents, maps and letters, including one from Bishop Selwyn and from Maori acquaintances including Tamihana Te Rauparaha and Mete Kingi 1847-1852. Describes members of Wellington society 1848-1850. Lists Maori tribes and population figures. Describes Tasmania on voyage home. Volume 2 describes return voyage to England and describes Tahiti, Hawaii, San Francisco, Acapulco and Panama. Relationship complexity - Vol 1 purchased at Sotheby's, Nov 1970; copy of Vol 2 provided by John Howell Books, San Francisco, 1971 (Acc 143,936-7); original of Vol 2 purchased from William Reese Company, United States of America, Jul 2006 (A2006-159) Relationship complexity - See also Collinson's letters at MS-Papers-1038, and his sketches held in the Drawing and Prints Collection. Quantity: 3 volume(s). 0.08 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (40 cm; 35 cm; green buckram) (also a photocopy of vol two) Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Sketches from vol 2. Includes illustrations and maps

Date: 1829-1885

By: Nobbs, George Hunn (Rev), 1799-1884

Reference: fMS-212-215

Description: Papers concern his teaching and preaching at Pitcairn Island, and his removal with the islanders to Norfolk Island, 1856. Includes letters from prominent Pacific missionaries and others. Also includes Nobbs' The Pitcairn Island Recorder: Remarks made at Pitcairn Island during the visit of HMS Curacoa, 1841, by W Gunn: Account of the Marquesas Islands, by W P Crook: I'm not ashamed, by W Epps: The South Seas, a record of three cruises in the islands, Pt 1, the Marquesas, by R L Stevenson. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 4 volume(s). 0.16 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, printed matter (photocopies) (40 cm; blue buckram hinged lid boxes) Finding Aids: Index to correspondents at the beginning of Vol 1.

Date: 1821, 1845-1886

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1256

Description: Letters to Nobbs from John White, consul at Valparaiso (1821); the later letters are from a variety of writers, including masters of whaling ships, Royal Navy officers, other missionaries and clergymen, such as Bishop Patterson in Auckland and family members. They include letters while he was in England in 1852 being ordained, and from 1856 to Norfolk Island where he was stationed. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/. Provenance: Letters found in an attic of a house on Norfolk Island. Auctioned by Stanley Gibbons Australia as Sales catalogue No 52 7 Sep 2005, after microfilming. Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2006

Date: [ca 1959-ca 1964], 1973-1983

By: Howse, Murray David, 1927-1986

Reference: PA-Group-00876

Description: Collection comprises photographs, slides and negatives relating to education officer Murray Howse's time on Pitcairn Island with his family ca 1959-1962, and to his return as part of an archaeological team led by Peter Gathercole 1963-1964. Includes photographs taken in New Zealand which relate to Murray Howse's ongoing relationship with Pitcairn Islanders. Some images are captioned. Most images probably taken by Murray Howse, with some images taken by Alex Howse, Yoshiko Sinoto and other unidentified photographer(s), between 1959-1983. Chiefly shows images of the landscape and people of Pitcairn Island in daily life. Images include their crafts, social gatherings, the school, and contact by longboat with passenger ships. Scenes of interest include trips to Henderson and Oeno Islands, and the archaeological team dig on Pitcairn Island 1963-1964. Negative images chiefly show daily tasks. Views include the collection of bananas, various buildings, men carrying a longboat downhill, Bounty Bay landing point, women with wheelbarrows made from Oeno Island cabbage trees, a man with a staff, a 'Welcome to Pitcairn Island' sign, a hula group and male choir performance, and the gravestone of John Adams. One set of negative images show a television set broadcasting scenes taken on Pitcairn Island. One set of negative strips show Japanese anthropologist Yoshiko Sinoto on his dig site at Bill's ground circa 1971, and the pearl scraper found by Murray Howse in a Henderson Island cave. Original housing of these two strips noted the scraper is "on loan to Otago Museum and is property of Gary Howse after me". Some negative images relate to prints in this collection. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Relationship complexity - see related material at MS-Group-2341 Arrangement: The various formats within this collection are housed according to their arrangement upon delivery to the Library. Please note the colour transparency slides contain action sequences which are scattered across records PA12-10688 to PA12-10712, and PA12-10714 to PA12-10733. These slides had probably been reordered for the purposes of display, loan and submission for publication or sale. Negatives at 35mm-100719-F to 35mm-100739-F The Governor of Pitcairn is also the British High Commissioner to New Zealand. From 1958, the government appointed New Zealand registered teachers as education officer for a two year period. Murray Howse was education officer on Pitcairn Island between 1959 and 1962. He edited 'Pitcairn Miscellany' 1960-1961. Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s). 885 colour original transparency/ies (mounted in card). 103 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 colour original photographic print(s). 5 item(s) of photographic ephemera ('Joy-Fold' booklets of proof sheets containing 140 b&w images). 14 b&w original negative(s) strips, containing 31 images. 8 colour original negative(s) strips, containing 12 images. Physical Description: Photograph albums, photographic prints, proof sheets, film negatives, colour transparency slides, photographic ephemera Provenance: Purchase, 2013 Transfers: Collection as a whole was taken into Photograph Archive and transfers were made from thereTo Manuscripts & Archives - 1 box of correspondence, published and unpublished manuscript materials (MS-Group-2341) - To Ephemera Collection - 1 plastic TEAL air ticket wallet, (EPH-A-AVIATION-TEAL-1960s-01) - To Book Collections - Four monographs - To Cartographic Collection - (on appraisal) map of Pitcairn Island.

Date: 1951-1953

By: Sanders, Roy, active 1950s-2006

Reference: MS-Papers-8549

Description: An exercise book in which Sanders has recorded his memories which led him to write a `psycho-anthropological' study of the 136 residents on Pitcairn Island during 1951-1953 from which he received first class honours. This reminiscence was entitled `Musings over 55 years.' Also included is a newspaper cutting on roading on Pitcairn Island and correspondence relating to the death of Morris Sterling (Mento) Warren. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, typescript and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr Roy Sanders, Auckland, April 2006

By: Beechey, Richard Brydges, 1808-1895; Frommel, Carl Ludwig, 1789-1863

Reference: A-119-006

Description: A 2-storied house with a barrel outside and a lower hut to the left, with a tall peak in the background and palm trees. In the foreground is a group of six adult Pitcairn Islanders with three small children around a cooking fire. Probably a book illustration Other Titles - The interior of Pitcairn Island. Published by J. G. Calve in Prague; Printed by Creuzbauer in Carlsruhe / Karlsruhe [translation] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 89 x 157 mm