• Title
  Photographs [of H.M.S. Pelorus and crew members, including portraits and views taken in Fiji, New Hebrides, New Zealand and Norfolk Island, ca. 1860-1861] / C.B.C.
• Creator
  C. B. C.
• Call number
  PXA 1056
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [ca. 1860-1861]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  446591
• Physical Description
  1 album (30 photoprints) - albumen - 24 x 33 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  1. H.M.S. Pelorus Farm Cove Sydney / H.I.M.S. Cleopatria, also Miranda.
  2. Conference, Fijian and Tonguese chiefs on bd. Pelorus, at Mathuata, Vana Leon, Fiji. (Consul Pritchard seated at right)
  3. Group of Natives, Mathuata.
  4. Ovalau. Levuka. Fiji.
  5. Ovalau. Levuka. Tui's House on the point. (L to R: Madden, Biddlecombe, Anderson, Mr Calvett, Irving)
  6. Tui Levuka's house at Levuka. Ovalau. Fiji.
  7. Tui Levuka, wife and attendants. Ovalau. Fiji.
  8. Thakombau (Vunevalau or Tui Viti) King of Fijis, and son and heir.
  9. Maafu (a distinguished Tonguese Chief). Wife and Child.
  10. Group of Livonians (Hill tribe) Ovalau. Fiji.
  11. Two Sisters (Tonguese, a Fijian, and a half cast girl, taken at Ovalau, Fiji.
  12. [Daniel Macdonald, boatswain's mate, HMS Pelorus] and Tui Mathuata. Son of Ritora Prince of Mathuata. Vana Leon. Fiji.
  13. Women of Mathuata, Fiji
  14. Residence of Mr. Gedye [probably Rev John Geddie], Missionary at Aneiteum, New Hebrides.
  15. Group taken at Aneiteum, New Hebrides.
  16. Bay of Islands, New Zealand.
  17. Pic-nic (before feeding) Waitangi Falls. Bay of Islands. N.Zd. (L to R: Irving, Biddlecombe, Backwill, Morris, De Ridder, Madden, Eaton, Interpreter)
  18. Pic-nic (after feeding) Waitangi Falls. Bay of Islands. N.Zd.
  19. Waitangi Falls. Bay of Islands. N.Zd.
  20. Maoris (owris), husband and wife, Bay of Islands.
  21. Half-cast. Maoris, Bay of Islands.
  22. Seamen belonging to H.M.S. Pelorus. Coromandel. NZd.
  23. Encampment at Otahuhu, near Onehuga, Auckland, NZd.
  24. Auckland. NZd. (Jas. Heron, Builder, Sash & Door Maker. Steam Saw Mill & Timber Yard)
  25. Queen St. Auckland. N.Zd.
  26. Norfolk, late Pitcairn Islanders. (Full length portrait of 4 males)
  27. Norfolk, late Pitcairn, Islanders, and officers of H.M.S. Pelorus (Group portrait)
  28. Norfolk, late Pitcairn Islanders. (Group portrait women & children)
  29. H.M.S. Pelorus in dock at Cockatoo, Sydney.
  30. Group of Norfolk late Pitcairn Isle[a]nders.
• General note
  
  Cover title
  It is not known whether "C.B.C." was the photographer or the owner of the album. For further information see: The Dictionary of Australian artists : painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870 / edited by Joan Kerr. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992, p.125.
  For further details about the ship Pelorus and listing of crew members see also:
  The Australia station : a history of the Royal Navy in the south west Pacific, 1821-1913 / John Bach. Kensington, N.S.W. : New South Wales University Press, c1986.
  The navy list / Great Britain. Admiralty. London : J. Murray, 1860-1862.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823510
• Name
  Geddie, John, 1815-1872
  Great Britain. Royal Navy
  Pelorus (ship)
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  children
  Photograph albums.
  
• Topic
  dry docks
  Fijians
  groups (people)
  indigenous people
  Maoris
  naval officers
  Norfolk Islanders
  Pacific Islanders
  picnics
  Pitcairnese
  sailors
  ships
  Tongans
  vernacular architecture
  
• Place
  Auckland (N.Z.)
  Cockatoo Island (N.S.W.)
  Fiji
  Islands, Bay of (N.Z.)
  New Zealand
  Norfolk Island
  Vanuatu
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Shot : 400 photographs, 200 photographers, 3 centuries - State Library of New South Wales (October 2023 - October 2024)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1109301

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