IDNO

P.43887.HNL

Description

“End of a thavu. A ndrua off Ovalau Id Fiji. Thavu = change of tack or course. Ndrua = double canoe. mission built - deficient in many respects from the old type of ndrua. Neyret”

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Neyret, Jean Baptiste (Father, R.C. Mission)

Collector / Expedition

Hornell, James

Date

circa 1931 - 1935

Collection Name

Hornell Collection

Source

Hornell, Charlotte (Mrs)

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The print was found in an envelope now numbered C144/3/ which was in a cardboard box numbered C144/ by the transcriber.

P.43857.HNL to P.43915.HNL were found in an envelope now marked C144/3/.

Related Image: This print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 12/11/2011]

Biographical Information: Father Jean-Marie Neyret was born in Lyons, France, on 18 July 1904. He went to the Pacific as a Marist missionary in 1931 and has served in Fiji, the Solomons and New Caledonia. A two-volume study by him entitled Pirogues Ocieaniennes was published in Paris in 1976-77. The New South Wales State Library holds archives of Neyret. [Source: http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au, JD 24/3/2013]