Le Père Germain Fierens et la conversion de Napuka
- AU PMB MS 1081-05
- Item
- 1976
Part of Miscellaneous manuscripts
Le Père Germain Fierens et la conversion de Napuka
Part of Miscellaneous manuscripts
La lettre du P. Albert Montiton ss.cc. sur les traditions et coutumes de Paumotous
Part of Miscellaneous manuscripts
L'Evêché de Papeete et les Frères Bâtisseurs
Part of Miscellaneous manuscripts
Journal de Désiré Louis Maigret, première partie Les Gambier, 1834 à 1840
Part of Miscellaneous manuscripts
Part of Miscellaneous manuscripts
Handley Bathurst Sterndale Drawings of Pacific Islands
'A Paradise of the Gods. Writings and Drawings of Handley Bathurst Sterndale’ (2020) is an unpublished digital edition edited by J.J. Overell. In 1870, Handley Bathurst Sterndale worked as a surveyor on the island of Upolu, Samoa, for the German trading company Goddefroy & Sohn. In this capacity, he made an expedition across Upolu, making notes and sketches about the journey as he went. In 1871, on Motu Kotawa on the islet of Pukapuka atoll in the Cook Islands, he worked these notes into the manuscript ‘Upolu; or, A Paradise of the Gods’, and worked his sketches into finished drawings. Some accounts are not his first hand observations and others are demonstrably wrong. Sterndale sought to have the manuscript published, but was unsuccessful in finding a publisher before his death in 1878. After his death, it was listed in a catalogue among the publications of Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington of London, but the manuscript never made it to print. It is now available as PMB MS 1442.
The original notebooks have since been lost, but the surviving manuscript and drawings have been passed down to Sterndale’s descendants. This collection brings together 73 of Sterndale's drawings of Samoa, Cook Islands and other islands of the Pacific. The images were digitised by photographer Rod Howe. The images are of scenes witnessed or imagined on his journey, including plants and animals, people, nature and village life.
Sterndale, Handley Bathurst
Frère Martin Darque, missionnaire des Sacré-Coeur [1816-1863]: documentation
Part of Miscellaneous manuscripts
E atoga Mangareva mei te ao eteni roa [History of Mangareva since the pagan era], Part 9 of 21
Part of Catalogued manuscripts
Catholic Archdiocese of Papeete
E atoga Mangareva mei te ao eteni roa [History of Mangareva since the pagan era], Part 8 of 21
Part of Catalogued manuscripts
Catholic Archdiocese of Papeete