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Portrait of Tongan woman and two girls in traditional and western dress, seated on woven matting, preparing kava ; Tongan girl and child in traditional and western dress, reclining on woven mat

Portrait of the Honorable Tuhuaho, in western and traditional dress ; Jiosaia Vaea, Tongan Chief (exiled) George Fatafehi, Governor of Haabai, Tonga

[Two images of] the belle of the village, Samoa, [c1880 to 1889]

Seven natives pictured preparing copra fibre, 'westerner' pictured on right of image

Samoan chief, wife and child; Fijian native minister, [c1880 to 1889]

Lacfones decorated grave, Tonga

Royal Burial Ground : The burial ground of the Tongan Royal Family was on Uiha Island until the capital moved to Nukualofa, Tonga

Mount Zion church [Nuku’alofa, Tonga]; View from Mount Zion, [Nuku’alofa, Tonga], [c1880 to 1889]

Two Tongan women and male child in traditional and western dress seated in front of woven stick/bamboo matting ; Group of four Tongan women in traditional and western dress seated on woven matting

Coast formation, extreme east of Tonga; Island of Boscowen [Tafahi] from Nuia Tobutaba [Niuatoputapu], [Tonga, c1880 to 1889]

OCEAN ISLAND, 1945-10-01. WAR CORRESPONDENTS INTERVIEWING GILBERTESE ISLANDER NABETARI WHO LIVED AT SEA FOR 7 MONTHS IN ESCAPING FROM THE JAPANESE DURING THE OCCUPATION. MAJ R.F. WAKEFIELD, BRITISH ..

OCEAN ISLAND, 1945-10-01. LT- CDR NAOOMI SUZUKI, COMMANDER JAPANESE FORCES ON OCEAN ISLAND, SURRENDERED TO BRIG J.R. STEVENSON, COMD 11 INFANTRY BRIGADE, IN A SURRENDER CEREMONY HELD ABOARD HMAS ..