02781nkc a22002537i 45000010005000000080041000050400026000461000040000722450032001122640020001443000020001643360028001843370023002123380032002353510019002675000020002865060028003065200266003345330077006005400079006775440057007565451555008138560159023688879140812u        xx            000 0|zxx d  aANU:PMBcANU:PMBerda1 aWoodford, Charles Morrisd1852-192710aSolomon Islands photographs  cc.1890 - c.1920  a290 photographs  astill image2rdacontent  acomputer2rdamedia  aonline resource2rdacarrier  aOrder as found  aAU PMB PHOTO 58  aAvailable for reference2 aThis collection of Charles Morris Woodford includes photographs of the Woodford family; Solomon Islands, Samoa, British New Guinea (Papua New Guinea), etc.; Photographs were bundled with story as told by Solomon Islands person, 1907 (See PMB MS 1381, item 002).  aElectronic reproduction:bCanberra :cPacific Manuscripts Bureau, d2014  aAvailable for referenceuhttp://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/copyright.php1 aSee also: PMB 1021; PMB 1290; PMB 1381; PMB PHOTO 560 aCharles Morris Woodford was born in 1852 and educated at Tonbridge School in England. He settled in Suva about 1882 and from Fiji visited Kiribati (the Gilbert Islands group), as Government agent on the ketch Patience. In 1886, as a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society he made the first of three successive explorations of the Solomon Islands, especially Guadalcanal, where he was the first white man to penetrate the interior to any distance, collecting natural history specimens for the British Museum. His experiences are described in his book A Naturalist Among Headhunters (1890). In 1895 Woodford became Acting Consul and Deputy Commissioner at Samoa, and in the following year, a part of the Solomon Group having been made a British Protectorate, he was appointed the first Resident Commissioner, a post which he retained until his retirement in 1914. His later years were spent in Sussex. Woodford contributed an account of his visit to the Gilbert Islands to The Geographical Journal in 1895, and a note on Ontong Java in 1909. In 1916 he read a paper to the Royal Geographical Society on Polynesian settlements in the Solomon Islands, published in the Journal in 1926. Woodford helped elucidate the narratives of Mandaña’s discovery of the Solomon Islands by identifying places visited by the Spaniards and taking photographs for inclusion in the Hakluyt Society publications. He also published papers in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, of which he was a Fellow. From The Geographical Journal, 1928, pp.206-207.41uhttp://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/digital/catalogue/index.php/solomon-islands-photographs-2zView this item in the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau Catalogue.