Memorial dedicated to the arrival of the Gospel on Maré island and graves of Tataio and Taniela Comment : This monument commemorates the arrival of the first missionaries Tataio and Taniela on Maré island in 1841. These missionaries were native of Samoas, trained by the London Missionary Society. They unloaded on the beach of Rô in the northwest of the island, at the foot of a high cliff of coral. According to Melanesian custom, their bones were put down in their pirogue, which was raised and put in an natural hollow of the cliff, above the monument.
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1 photograph : black-and-white positive, on paper, 12x9 cm photographs
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