"Kemborapusa convention - Easter Saturday. Joyce and Beth."
- AU PMB PHOTO 33-109
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- 1971-1973
Part of Slides documenting the Baptist Mission in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, 1971-1973
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"Kemborapusa convention - Easter Saturday. Joyce and Beth."
Part of Slides documenting the Baptist Mission in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, 1971-1973
The Reverend Collocott (1886-1970) served as a Methodist missionary in Tonga from 1911 until 1924, initially at Ha'apai and from 1915 as Principal of Tupou College. He wrote numerous papers on Tongan myths, legends, history, language, customs and astronomy for Mankind, the Journal of the Polynesian Society, Folklore and the special publications of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. See also PMB 28
The typescript is not dated but is thought to have been written after Collocott left Tonga, possibly between 1921 and 1930. The manuscript is a history of Tonga centred around King Taufa'ahau (George Tupou I) and his family. It contains stories of creation, myths, legends, songs, and family histories and, as the chapter headings denote, the more recent history and personalities associated with the coming of the Europeans (Cook, Bligh, Edwards, Moulton, the London Missionary Society etc.). A number of published works are named as reference sources. The manuscript appears to contain twenty-six chapters but from Chapter 13 onwards the arrangement is very confused. The detailed list of the contents, at the beginning of the microfilm, also indicates the position of some additional pages in Collocott's handwriting. Annotations have been made at some time by an unknown researcher.
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Collocott, Ernest Edgar Vyvyan
Part of Ellestan Dusting slides of Papua and New Guinea, New Hebrides and New Caledonia
Part of Ellestan Dusting slides of Papua and New Guinea, New Hebrides and New Caledonia
Part of Slides documenting the Baptist Mission in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, 1971-1973
Part of Photographs from Papua New Guinea, mainly New Britain and New Ireland
"Kwato Island girls making mats."
Part of Photographs from Samarai, Kwato, Abau Island, Port Moresby and elsewhere in Papua
"LIFELINE" launch for Paton Memorial Hospital
Paton, Frank (1906-2002) and Rita (1904-1982)