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Title
Tongan missionaries
Creator
Johnson, Martin, 1884-1937
Date Created and/or Issued
1917
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Jack London Photographs and Negatives
Rights Information
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Description
Missionary Semisi Nau, his wife Matelita, and daughter Akosita stand under palm trees facing camera.
Title transcribed from envelope. Date devised by cataloger. . Verso of photo reads: "Missionaries Simisi (Tongan) Martha Lita [sic]. Tongan missionaries at small atoll named Lord Howe called part of Solomons but more human original, or another Lord Howe somewhere near Australia."
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : print ; 10 x 12 cm
Identifier
JLP 326
463452
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll7/id/414
Subject
Nau, Semisi, 1866?-1927
Missionaries--Solomon Islands
Tongans
Johnson, Martin, 1884-1937
Black-and-white photographs. (aat)
Place
Ontong Java Atoll (Solomon Islands)
Source
Jack London Collection
Box 462, Photographs: Prints: SS-Vera Cruz. A
Jack London Photographs and Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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