Description: Youth on board a takia, a river-going outrigger dugout canoe, look toward the camera on the bank of the Rewa River. The takia is 'parked' in the shallows stabilised by a log. Hands of jaina/bananas are being transported on the deck. The young man and woman standing in the takia hold long thin poles used to guide the takia through the Rewa River. The adjacent riverbank has been partially cleared of forest. The man with his back to the camera wears a turban worn by Sikh Fiji Indian men

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Youth on board a takia, a river-going outrigger dugout canoe, look toward the camera on the bank of the Rewa River. The takia is 'parked' in the shallows stabilised by a log.…

Description: Yame ni Matau. Adze blade. Yame ni Matau (the tongue of the adze), is carved from vatu (stone) and is mostly dark grey in colour with light-brown speckled throughout the surface of the Yame ni Matau. The Yame ni Matau is cylindrical in shape, with a circular cross-section, and has a mild to moderately sharp cutting edge, with a concave bevel, and with a rounded blade. Yame ni Matau has a moderate level polish all over, with the overall surface treatment left pecked.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYDescription: Yame ni Matau. Adze blade. Yame ni Matau (the tongue of the adze), is carved from vatu (stone) and is mostly dark grey in colour with light-brown speckled throughout the…

Description: Tanoa, yaqona bowl

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Date: 1924Description: Tanoa, yaqona bowl

Description: Girls preparing Kava

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Girls preparing Kava

Description: Pandanus, fine strips, double-sided upper layer of pandanus, red and blue wool fringe. Said to have been old when given to donor's uncle, John Henry Williams Lane about 1942.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 2000.79.1Accession Date: 28 Mar 2001Description: Pandanus, fine strips, double-sided upper layer of pandanus, red and blue wool fringe. Said to have been old when given to donor's uncle, John Henry Williams Lane about…

Description: pottery fragment. water jar, part of shoulder with spout neck.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 1935.153Accession Date: 14 May 1935Description: pottery fragment. water jar, part of shoulder with spout neck.

Description: pottery fragment. incised decoration.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 1935.153Accession Date: 14 May 1935Description: pottery fragment. incised decoration.

Description: pottery fragment. dark grey brown.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 1935.153Accession Date: 14 May 1935Description: pottery fragment. dark grey brown.

Description: pottery fragment. grey brown.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 1935.153Accession Date: 14 May 1935Description: pottery fragment. grey brown.

Description: Rubu. Bag. For carrying personal items. Woven from voivoi (pandanus), double-layered, rectangular in shape, consisting of four sides (two which are patterned), lid and base. Commencement from base for both inner and outer layers. Wood, bitu (bamboo) or dogo (mangrove) frame to maintain rectangular structure. Inner layer consists of strips of voivoi woven out in check. Base consists of wide strips of voivoi altering to a fine check weave at all four sides of rubu. Front and back sides are decorated with strips of somo (dyed-black voivoi) and natural coloured strips of voivoi arranged to create geometric and checkered patterns. Lid woven out in check decorated with somo and natural coloured voivoi strips. Tali rua (2-ply braid) looped and sewn near edge of lid using voivoi strips forming latch that is secured with a button made of voivoi strips. Rounded handle tali va (4-ply braid) using natural coloured strips of voivoi, looped and threaded through sides and base in between inner and outer layers of rubu.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 2014.53.2Accession Date: 04 Aug 2014Description: Rubu. Bag. For carrying personal items. Woven from voivoi (pandanus), double-layered, rectangular in shape, consisting of four sides (two which are patterned), lid and base.…

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Description: Black and white photograph of a man in military uniform seated on a motorcycle. A large building in background with two trucks parked outside.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Black and white photograph of a man in military uniform seated on a motorcycle. A large building in background with two trucks parked outside.

Description: Black and white photograph of three men standing in front a of tent. The man in the centre is holding a bird cupped in his hands with the other two men looking at it.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Black and white photograph of three men standing in front a of tent. The man in the centre is holding a bird cupped in his hands with the other two men looking at it.

Description: Black and white photograph of crude building made from corrugated metal. A group of men are standing underneath on canopy attached to the building on the left.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Black and white photograph of crude building made from corrugated metal. A group of men are standing underneath on canopy attached to the building on the left.

Description: Snapshot of man identified on verso of print as Stewart. The man is standing next to a car which has a dent in the front.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Snapshot of man identified on verso of print as Stewart. The man is standing next to a car which has a dent in the front.

Description: View of the exterior of Baker Hall, in Dauilevu, Nausori.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: View of the exterior of Baker Hall, in Dauilevu, Nausori.

Description: Recto: "The Army Education Welfare Service have the privilege to present ... "Tons of Money" and at the Parish Hall, Suva (in aid of Fiji Patriotic Funds). Wednesday, Thursday, July 26th and 28th 1944.".

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Recto: "The Army Education Welfare Service have the privilege to present ... "Tons of Money" and at the Parish Hall, Suva (in aid of Fiji Patriotic Funds). Wednesday,…

Description: Black and white photograph of four bure (wood and straw building) in a Fiji village. Rail road tracks are visilbe in the foreground on the right of the photograph.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Black and white photograph of four bure (wood and straw building) in a Fiji village. Rail road tracks are visilbe in the foreground on the right of the photograph.

Description: Black and white photograph depicting the exterior of a workshop used by the Light Aid Detachment in Nausori, Fiji.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Black and white photograph depicting the exterior of a workshop used by the Light Aid Detachment in Nausori, Fiji.

Description: Black and white photograph of sugar mill and railway tracks. Large bundles of sugar cane are piled outside the factory and at the side of the rails.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Black and white photograph of sugar mill and railway tracks. Large bundles of sugar cane are piled outside the factory and at the side of the rails.