Traditional FIJIAN ARTEFACTS Book Although colonists called it white

Although colonists called it white slavery

Objects visible with binoculars

In the 1920s

died in the Hobart Zoo

Traditional FIJIAN ARTEFACTS Book Although colonists called it whiteArt has always been integral to the culture of the indigenous people of Fiji. Its quality was quickly recognised by the first Westerners to visit, who collected it avidly, and a quantity of material found its way to Tasmania. It came via seamen for whom the busy port of Hobart was a transit stop or a home port; from Wesleyan missionaries headquartered there for a time and then continued to support the Mission in Fiji; and from collectors who have