'Schooner "Traveller" Rimitera, South Pacific.'
- AU PMB PHOTO 129-03
- Item
- 25 September 1867
Parte de Handley Bathurst Sterndale Drawings of Pacific Islands
Sterndale, Handley Bathurst
'Schooner "Traveller" Rimitera, South Pacific.'
Parte de Handley Bathurst Sterndale Drawings of Pacific Islands
Sterndale, Handley Bathurst
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 Writings and Drawings of Handley Bathurst Sterndale’ (2020) is an unpublished digital edition edited by J.J. Overell.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
Newspaper clippings concerning an old cannon found in the pass of Papeete in 1963.
Parte de Records of the Societe des Etudes Oceaniennes, Papeete, Tahiti
Societe des Etudes Oceaniennes
Autobiography of Teriieroo a Teriierooiterai, a notable Tahitian chief and orator
Parte de Records of the Societe des Etudes Oceaniennes, Papeete, Tahiti
Societe des Etudes Oceaniennes
Miscellaneous documents relating to the reign of Queen Pomare IV.
Parte de Records of the Societe des Etudes Oceaniennes, Papeete, Tahiti
Societe des Etudes Oceaniennes
Miscellaneous manuscripts of Xavier Caillet (1822-1901)
Parte de Records of the Societe des Etudes Oceaniennes, Papeete, Tahiti
Societe des Etudes Oceaniennes
Parte de Records of the Societe des Etudes Oceaniennes, Papeete, Tahiti
Societe des Etudes Oceaniennes
Documents concerning Edward Darling, the Nature Man, 1913-18
Parte de Records of the Societe des Etudes Oceaniennes, Papeete, Tahiti
Societe des Etudes Oceaniennes
Records of the Societe des Etudes Oceaniennes, Papeete, Tahiti
Records of the Societe des Etudes Oceaniennes, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia:
Societe des Etudes Oceaniennes
Plan de la "Maris-Stella", Takume
Parte de Catalogued manuscripts
Catholic Archdiocese of Papeete