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• The Beach at Oinafa
• Village Scene
• Road Scene
• Thatched Houses
• Ri Sipaki (Pole House)
• View of Solroroa
• Mobil Oil Facility
• Beach at Vaioa & Natural Bridge

• Woman Plaiting a Mat
• Women Carrying Mats
• Han Mane'ak Su (Female Clown)
• Women Dancing
• Dancing a Tautoga
• Methodist Choir
• Men in Ceremonial Dress
• Welcoming the President of Fiji (Ratu Mara)

• Apei (Fine Mat)
• Feather Trim on Apei
• Cake for 150th Anniversary of Catholic Church
• Formal Presentation of Food at Feast
• Tefui (Rotuman garland)
• Grave Decorations

Twenty-six photos by A.M. Hocart from Turnbull Library in Wellington (1913-1914)

Eleven additional photos by A.M. Hocart from the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, U.K.

Ninety-one photos from the Marist Archives in Rome dating back to the 1920s

Fifty photos taken by Dr. H.S. Evans in 1940

Seven photos of Rotuman gravestones on Thursday Island, with inscriptions, taken by Sosefo Inoke.

Opening of Council House in 1971

Seventeen photos from the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, UK dating back to 1873

Photo essays from Alan Howard's visit to Fiji and Rotuma from 1959 to 1961

Photos by Richard Mehus during his stay on Rotuma as a Peace Corps Volunteer from Jan 1972 to Dec 1974

Six sets: 1 2 3 4 5 6

Photos from 1981 centennial celebration of Rotuma's cession to Great Britain

Photos from Fiji Museum

• Airplane Approaching Terminal
• Control Tower and Terminal
• Fueling Station (Bowser) at Motusa
• Jetty at Oinafa
• School at Motusa
• Motusa Bay from Motusa
• Motusa Bay from Ahau
• Haua Islets off Oinafa
• Husiarua Islets
• Hofliua
• Feast at Tuai

• Feasting
• Dancing
• Split Island

• Rotuma
• Fiji
• Auckland
• Sydney
• Melbourne
• Wellington
• San Francisco
• England
• Florida

• Tanoa (kava bowl)
• Pounding kava
• Gagaj Ferei of Tuakoi
• Around the tanoa
• Bush road
• Pineapple plantation (1)
• Pineapple plantation (2)
• Pineapple plantation (3)
• Cow and motorbike
• Youth clearing land
• Cutting copra
• Copra on bush road
• Youths returning from work
• Youths on pickup truck
• The road from Sumi
• Sumi's tractor
• Ri fak Rotuam in Pepei
• Sumi primary school
• Sumi Catholic church

Photos from Anneke Martine's visit to Rotuma in September 2004

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