Memorial dedicated to the arrival of the Gospel on Rô, Maré island : bones of the missionaries Tataio and Taniela in a rest of their pirogue Comment : Tataio and Taniela were the first missionaries who unloaded on Maré island in 1841. They were native of Samoas, trained by the London Missionary Society. According to Melanesian custom, their bones were put down in their pirogue, which was raised and put in an natural hollow of the cliff.
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1 photograph : black-and-white positive, on paper, 13x18 cm photographs
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