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Polynesian isles of the South Pacific [Tonga and Wallis islands, Tahiti and French Polynesia, Pago Pago and American Samoa, Apia and Western Samoa, Cook, Pitcairn and Easter islands.]

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Souvenirs oceaniens de Paris

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
The Tonga Islands and other groups

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Strange stories from the South Seas

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Polynesia

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Isles of the South Pacific

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
A narrative of missionary enterprises in the South Sea islands : with remarks upon the natural history of the islands, origin, languages, traditions and usages of the inhabitants

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
[Portrait of couple in Tahitian costume, with photographer]

Description: Costume of dyed worked fibre and fabric.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Costume of dyed worked fibre and fabric.
Polynesia in colour

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
In the South Seas & Island nights' entertainments

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
The island world of the Pacific : being the personal narrative and results of travel through the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands and other parts of Polynesia

Description: "The design of the whole is to present a true and life-like picture of the best part of Polynesia as it is seen now in 1850. Other writers [...] have given to the world very accurate and entertaining delineations of Polynesian and Hawaiian society, usages, and annals, both civil and religious, up to times they wrote. But such has been the rapidity of changes in that part of Polynesia with which this volume has most to do, that the lapse of seven years suffices to effect a total revolution. This book is intended, therefore, to answer a want of the times, by affording, both to the wanderer abroad and to the stayer at home, a correct view of the Island World of the Pacific as it now is, just midway in the arch of the nineteenth century."--Preface.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "The design of the whole is to present a true and life-like picture of the best part of Polynesia as it is seen now in 1850. Other writers [...] have given to the world very…
[Portrait of couple in Tahitian costume with Tudor Collins]

Description: Costumes are dyed worked fibres and fabric.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Costumes are dyed worked fibres and fabric.
American Polynesia : coral islands of the central Pacific

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Coral lands

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Hawaii & Polynesia

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
American Polynesia and the Hawaiian chain

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
[Portrait of a Pacific island woman lying down on the shoreline]

Description: Costume is worked fibre with multiple dyes, and garlands of flower blossoms.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Costume is worked fibre with multiple dyes, and garlands of flower blossoms.
[Portrait of a woman standing on the beach shoreline]

Description: Costume is worked fabric with multiple dyes and garlands of flower blossoms.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Costume is worked fabric with multiple dyes and garlands of flower blossoms.
[Portrait of couple in Tahitian costume, with photographer]

Description: Costume are dyed worked fibre and fabric.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Costume are dyed worked fibre and fabric.
Journal of a cruise among the islands of the western Pacific, including the Feejees and others inhabited by the Polynesian negro races, in Her Majesty's ship Havannah, Capt. R.N.

Description: "Captain Erskine, in 1849, sailed from Russell, New Zealand, and reached Niue or Savage Island. He visited Manua, Tutuila, and Upolu of the Samoan Islands. Next, Vavau, Lifuka, and Tongatabu were visited, then Fiji, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and Port Jackson" - Hill. Erskine includes vivid descriptions of the Pacific islanders he encountered. The color plates depict "Girls and Man of Uea - Loyalty Islands"; "Maunca, Chief of Tutuila, Samoan Islands" and "Thakombau, Tui Viti, Chief of Feegee"; "Man of Tana, New Hebrides" and "Chief of Vate, New Hebrides"; "Inferior Chief of New Caledonia" and "Naisilini, Chief of Mare, Loyalty Islands." The map shows the route of the H.M.S. Havannah in the western Pacific.áHILL 568. ABBEY TRAVEL 602. -- William Reese Company

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "Captain Erskine, in 1849, sailed from Russell, New Zealand, and reached Niue or Savage Island. He visited Manua, Tutuila, and Upolu of the Samoan Islands. Next, Vavau,…
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Polynesian isles of the South Pacific [Tonga and Wallis islands, Tahiti and French Polynesia, Pago Pago and American Samoa, Apia and Western Samoa, Cook, Pitcairn and Easter islands.]

Souvenirs oceaniens de Paris

The Tonga Islands and other groups

Strange stories from the South Seas

Polynesia

Isles of the South Pacific

A narrative of missionary enterprises in the South Sea islands : with remarks upon the natural history of the islands, origin, languages, traditions and usages of the inhabitants

[Portrait of couple in Tahitian costume, with photographer]

Polynesia in colour

In the South Seas & Island nights' entertainments

The island world of the Pacific : being the personal narrative and results of travel through the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands and other parts of Polynesia

[Portrait of couple in Tahitian costume with Tudor Collins]

American Polynesia : coral islands of the central Pacific

Coral lands

Hawaii & Polynesia

American Polynesia and the Hawaiian chain

[Portrait of a Pacific island woman lying down on the shoreline]

[Portrait of a woman standing on the beach shoreline]

[Portrait of couple in Tahitian costume, with photographer]

Journal of a cruise among the islands of the western Pacific, including the Feejees and others inhabited by the Polynesian negro races, in Her Majesty's ship Havannah, Capt. R.N.

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