Rārangi
Rārangi
Momo Taonga
Ingoa/Taitara
Bamboo raft and paddlers, Torres Islands [Vanuatu]
Kaiwaihanga Matua
Rā
1906
Whakaahuatanga ā-Kiko
160 mm. x 210 mm. Full plate.
Taumata o te Mauhanga o Nāianei
Child
Ngā Tuhipoka Ahanoa Hāngai
Beattie, John Watt. Diary 1906. Auckland War Memorial Museum, Ms 1045.
Catalogue of a series of photographs illustrating the scenery and peoples of the islands in the south and western Pacific.
He Wāhi Nō
Pāoho
Tikanga Waihanga
Huinga Kaupapa
Ngā Taipitopito Tātai Takenga
Collection obtained by purchase from Beattie's Studios in Hobart, Tasmania, 1933 at a cost of 25.00 pounds. The Melanesian collection had just been shipped when Beattie's Studios were destroyed by fire, destroying John Beattie's Tasmanian negatives.
Kuputuhi e Wātea Tūmatanui ana
Negative 6617 was not given a number by J.W. Beattie and was not included in the photographers catalogue.
Possibly Tegua
John Watt Beattie, born in Aberdeen, Scotland, began photography in Hobart, Tasmania in 1882. He travelled to Melanesia in 1906 in the Melanesian Mission steamer "Southern Cross". Beattie was well known in Tasmania as a photographer/explorer.
Brother of Auckland photographer William Beattie and uncle of New Zealand Herald and Auckland Weekly News photographer Bill Beattie
Manatārua
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