Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 1 reads [stamped in black ink:] 'Z-4152 FIJI'. [typed:] 'Book, 16 1/2" x 13 1/2", water colour paintings of Fijian manufactures and various photographs of Western Pacific scenery and personages, by Miss Constance Fredereka Gordon Cumming, 1876-1877.' [added in pencil:] 'Drawer G'. [stamped in black ink:] 'DRAWER G'.
Catalogue card 2 reads [handwritten in black ink:] 'Z.4152. Book, 16 1/2" x 13 1/2", water colour paintings of Fijian manufactures and various photographs of Western Pacific scenery and personages, by Miss Constance Fredereka Gordon Cumming, 1876-1877. Drawer G'. [added in pencil:] 'G'.
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Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Album entitled "Fijian Manufactures" by Constance Gordon Cummings with her photograph on inside cover. Contains 70 pages of detailed watercolour paintings of primarily Fijian artefacts, but also some Maori and Solomon Island objects and various photographs of Western Pacific scenery and personages. A few small watercolours of Fijian scenery. Numerous photographs including cartes de visite of Europeans (Gordon, Von Hugel, Maudslay, William McGregor etc.) and Polynesians (King and Queen of Hawaii and King and Queen of Tahiti and other members of Polynesian Royal families). Additional photographs of buildings and scenery. Also contains treasury notes from Levuka, letters and newspaper clipping.
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: maa