Group of men, women, and children outside dwelling, probably South West Bay, Malekula
- AU PMB PHOTO 104-009
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- 1940s
Part of Reverend Conrad Stallan's photographs of the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), 1940s
Stallan, Conrad George
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Group of men, women, and children outside dwelling, probably South West Bay, Malekula
Part of Reverend Conrad Stallan's photographs of the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), 1940s
Stallan, Conrad George
Part of Reverend Conrad Stallan, album of photographs of the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), 1940-1946
Stallan, Conrad George
'Tropical ulcer on elbow.' Aulua, Malekula
Part of Reverend Conrad Stallan, album of photographs of the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), 1940-1946
Stallan, Conrad George
'Trap entrance to a compound', Big Nambas area, Malekula
Part of Reverend Conrad Stallan, album of photographs, New Hebrides (Vanuatu), 1940-1946
Stallan, Conrad George
Diary of Conrad Stallan, 1941-1943
The first diary, written by Rev. Stallan between 1940 – 1943 (though most entries were in 1941), covers life and work in South West Bay. He comments extensively on sickness and death in the local community, including his own periods of illness. Both Rev. Stallan and daughter Janet suffered malaria during this time. Janet was treated by a visiting Missionary GP who administered life-saving quinine. Stallan had no formal medical training, but had worked as an apprentice chemist/pharmacist for an unknown period, and may have received some basic training for the mission field. He was often called upon for medical and dental help, including giving injections (known as ‘stick medicine’), and daughter Janet recalls there was a room in the family home known as ‘the surgery’.
In the first diary he also comments on school activities, agriculture, local customs and preparations for making contact with the Big Nambas; who had violently rebuffed previous European contact and missionaries were forbidden by Condominium authorities from approaching them (Garrett, 1997 p.75). Rev. Stallan also writes of visiting Tangoa, Tanna, Vila and Tongoa.
Stallan, Conrad George
Young child holding dish, probably Malekula
Part of Reverend Conrad Stallan's photographs of the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), 1940-1946
Stallan, Conrad George
'Matson poses', Lieutenant E. Matson with Big Nambas men, Malekula
Part of Reverend Conrad Stallan, album of photographs, New Hebrides (Vanuatu), 1940-1946
Stallan, Conrad George
'2. The smoulering powder is put on to a piece of dry coconut husk and fanned.'
Part of Reverend Conrad Stallan, album of photographs of the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), 1940-1946
Stallan, Conrad George
Close-up of tropical ulcer on elbow, Aulua, Malekula
Part of Reverend Conrad Stallan, album of photographs of the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), 1940-1946
Stallan, Conrad George
Part of Reverend Conrad Stallan's photographs of the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), 1940s
Stallan, Conrad George