Photograph Album F

  1. F1 - "Women - Vella Lavella Solomon Is" inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Women (Liapari) Vella Lavella Is (side view)". Profile view of three women, one holding a baby.

  2. F2 - "Women - Vella Lavella Solomon Is" inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Women (Liapari) Vella Lavella Is (front view)". Front view of three women, one holding a baby.

  3. F3 - "War canoes Vella Lavella Solomon Is." inscribed on the photo. Same description in list in folder named "Papers". Two canoes with high prows decorated with shells, inside a large building.
    Written on verso: "Mon style canoes Vella Lavella. Both ends are alike and rise into a high peak which is ornamented with Ovulum shells along its outer edge and along the inner edge with triangular toothed pieces of shell. The sides are decorated with inlay. A bunch of feathers is on the tip of each peak". The folder named "Photographs 1" has two enlargements of this photo on pages 36 and 53.

  4. F4 - "Plantation - Vella Lavella S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "General view Vella Lavella Is". View along the coast; pontoon bridge in the middle distance. Two copies of the photo.

  5. F5 - "Island king Vella Lavella S.I." inscribed on the photo. Same description in list in folder named "Papers". Portrait photo of a man.

  6. F6 - "Natives Vella Lavella S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Two boys (portrait) Vella Lavella Is". Portrait photo of two young men.

  7. F7 - "Malaita man S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Malaita boy (portrait) Vella Lavella Is". Portrait photo of a young man. Two copies of the photo.

  8. F8 - "Women Vella Lavella S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Women (portrait)". Portrait photo of two women. Two copies of the photo.

  9. F9 - "Canoe Shortland Is. S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Canoe scene Faisi Shortland Is." Large canoe with high prow and stern; 11 men on board.

  10. F10 - "Faisi Shortland Is. S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "General views Faisi Shortland Is." View across water with islands in the distance.

  11. F11 - "Faisi Shortland Is. S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "General views Faisi Shortland Is." View across a bay towards land in the distance.

  12. F12 - "Tambo shrine Simbo Is. Solomon Is." inscribed on the photo. Same description in list in folder named "Papers". A mound of stones with several human skulls and some shell ornaments; two buildings behind the stones.

  13. F13 - "Tambo shrine Simbo S.I" inscribed on the photo. Same description in list in folder named "Papers". A mound of stones in front of a small wooden structure; wooden pole with carved wooden face to one side.

  14. F14 - "Tambo shrine Simbo S.I" inscribed on the photo. Same description in list in folder named "Papers". Small roofed structure adorned with shell ornaments.

  15. F15 - "Simbo lagoon S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "General view Simbo Is." View across lagoon towards steep shoreline with buildings at the water's edge.

  16. F16 - "Simbo - S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "General view Simbo Is." View across lagoon to a small steep hill with buildings at the water's edge and a large moored ship. Two copies of the photo.

  17. F17 - "Native houses - Simbo - S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Village scene Simbo Is.". Two large houses. Two copies of the photo.

  18. F18 - "Gizo S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "View from Govt. station Gizo Is." View towards islands in the distance. Two copies of the photo.

  19. F19 - "Gizo - Solomon Is." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "View from Govt. station Gizo Is." View towards islands in the distance. Two copies of the photo.

  20. F20 - "Mission church Russel I Sol. I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Native church (Melanesian Mission) Russel Is.". Church building made from local materials; line of women and children standing in front of the building. Two copies of the photo.

  21. F21 - "Canoes - Vella Lavella S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Canoe scene Vella Lavella". Three small canoes with high prows and sterns; two people in two canoes and three in the other.

  22. F22 - "Women - Vella Lavella S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Group of women Vella Lavella". Three women, one holding a baby. Two copies of the photo.

  23. F23 - "Helavo village Gela S.I." inscribed on the photo. Same description in list in folder named "Papers". View across water to a village at the water's edge, set amongst coconut palms. Two copies of the photo.

  24. F24 - "Ivory nut trees Gela S.I." inscribed on the photo. Same description in list in folder named "Papers". Ivory nut trees behind a wooden fence.

  25. F25 - "Church - Helavo Vge. Gela S.I." inscribed on the photo. Same description in list in folder named "Papers". Large church made from local materials.

  26. F26 - "Tulagi S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "View of Tulagi". View across water to a small town.

  27. F27 - "Tulagi harbour S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "View of Tulagi harbour (panorama)". View of harbour with a steamship.

  28. F28 - "Tulagi harbour S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "View of Tulagi harbour (panorama)". View of harbour.

  29. F29 - "Canoe Guadalcanal S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Canoe scene Guadalcanal near Aola". High-prowed canoe in shallows with about eight men on board; large steam ship in background. Two copies of the photo.

  30. F30 - "Canoes Simbo S.I." inscribed on the photo. Same description in list in folder named "Papers". Three canoes with men on board.

  31. F31 - "Preparing yams Guadalcanal S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Women preparing yams Rere, Guadalcanal". Four women preparing yams in large bowls. Two copies of the photo.

  32. F32 - "Preparing yams Guadalcanal S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Women preparing yams Rere, Guadalcanal". Two women preparing yams in large bowls. Two copies of the photo.

  33. F33 - "Man Guadalcanal S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Man with growth Rere, Guadalcanal". Man with a large growth on his neck.

  34. F34 - "Man Guadalcanal S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Man (portrait) Rere, Guadalcanal". Portrait of a man.

  35. F35 - "Women Guadalcanal S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Women Rere, Guadalcanal". Three women with bowls on their heads.

  36. F36 - "House Guadalcanal S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "House - Tasimboko Vge., Beraude, Guadalcanal". Fenced house made from local materials with people standing in front of the house. Two copies of the photo.

  37. F37 - "House Guadalcanal S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "House - Tasimboko Vge., Beraude, Guadalcanal". House made from local materials with Man and boy standing in front of the house.

  38. F38 - "Preparing yams Guadalcanal S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Women preparing yams Tasimboko Vge., Beraude Guadalcanal". Four women mashing yams with sticks in large bowls near water's edge.

  39. F39 - "Village scene Guadalcanal S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Village scene Tasimboko, Beraude, Guadalcanal". Village scene showing several houses and a small group of men and boys.

  40. F40 - "Village scene Guadalcanal S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Village scene Tasimboko, Vge., Beraude, Guadalcanal". Village scene showing several houses and a small group of women and girls.

  41. F41 - "Church Guadalcanal S.I." Village scene Guadalcanal S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Church - Toombosa Vge., Beraude, Guadalcanal". Church made from local materials. Two copies of the photo.

  42. F42 - "Village scene Guadalcanal S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Village scene Toombosa Vge., Beraude, Guadalcanal". Village scene showing several houses.

  43. F43 - "Coconut plantation Guadalcanal Is. S.I." inscribed on the photo. Same description in list in folder named "Papers". View across water towards a coconut plantation on the coast; mountains in the background.

  44. F44 - "Loading horses Guadalcanal S.I." inscribed on the photo. Same description in list in folder named "Papers". Horse in a sling being loaded or unloaded from a boat. Two copies of the photo.

  45. F45 - "Lever Bros plantation Guadalcanal S.I." inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Lever Bros. plantation - Beraude, Guadalcanal". View across water showing "western- style buildings along the coast and plantation behind the houses.

  46. F46 - "Village scene Gela S.I.". inscribed on the photo. Description in list in folder named "Papers": "Village scene (Voloa), Gela". House; four men and six children in front.

  47. Unnumbered loose photo at the back of Album F: "'Uncle Ern' taken in New Guinea 1915" written on verso. European man (presumably Ernest Usher ?) holding a horse with a New Guinea man in the saddle. There are two additional copies of this photo in "Photograph Folder 3, AA835/1/9, page 63, photo (b).

CreatorErnest Sterne Usher
ControlAA835/1/6
Series AA835/1