IDNO

P.87293.VH

Description

Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard (1924) of the Fiji military band (front) and other members of the force posing outside the Suva town hall. The practise of the military and later also the police force bands playing on the wharf to visiting steamers or tourist liners was continued through most of the twentieth century.
Fiji government public relations photo. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Viti Levu; Suva

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd [Publishers]

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1920 - 1924

Collection Name

Von Hugel Collection

Source

Format

Postcard Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.87284.VH to P.87296.VH were in the print envelope now numbered C512/2/. This envelope came from the Museum’s paper archive envelope VH1/4/7, which has now been re-numbered C512/.

Publication: On Rod Ewins’ internet site ‘www.justpacific.com’:
““Fiji Native Military Band”.
Unused. Tuck’s Post Card. Publisher “Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., By Appointment”. Copyright Fiji Government. Printed in England.
On verso: “This is the native miltiary band, which plays on the dock on the departure of the fine Mail Steamers which call at Suva every month.” This custom was still observed when I left Fiji on the “Oronsay” in 1957.” [A. Nadin, 2/7/2003]

Publication: A duplicate of this postcard is on the website ‘www.justpacific.com’ in the section concerning the photographs used on Fijian postcards. [A. Nadin, 2/7/2003]

Publication: A copy of this postcard is published in Fiji’s Past on Picture Postcards, Elsie Stephenson (1997), fig.263, p.263. [A. Nadin, 2/7/2003]

Related Image: This print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 26/12/2011]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [A. Nadin, 2/7/2003]