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“Malicolla [Malakula] - The mission station, just after the ground was cleared and the house erected. Mr. Morton, the missionary, stands in front of the nearest window, in white. Mr. Lawrie, missionary from Aneityum [Anatom], is on the right in dark clothes. Down below, on the extreme left is a chief. The young native on the right was afterwards murdered by a shot intended for Mr. Morton. The natives who are clothed are Christians.” Group portrait in front of the clapboard mission station with corrugated roofing. The group consists of both indigenous and white men other than Morton and Lawrie. Some wear only the ‘namba’ (a traditional penis sheath from the New Hebrides [Vanuatu]) and others, including the women, are dressed in Western-style clothes. Alexander ‘Sandy’ Morton, a Scottish Presbyterian missionary, worked on Mallicolla between 1887 and 1892 before moving to Australia to serve as minister in Orbost, then a rural outpost of the colony of Victoria. James Hay Lawrie and his wife came from Edinburgh to Aneityum, and worked there from 1879-1896. Later he was minister of several charges in New South Wales. Margaret Lawrie died in 1922 and James Lawrie in 1929.
Indigenous peoples Lawrie, James Hay, missionary, New Hebrides, 1849-1929 Morton, Alexander, missionary in the New Hebrides, 1858-1948 Buildings (structures) Dwellings Murders
Time Period
circa 1890
Place
Malakula Malampa Province Oceania Vanuatu
Source
Acc.7548/F/19 [Reference number] NLS DOD ID: 75653848 [File]
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