Tambua, c.1913-1938

Component identifier:

File 35. Box 5

Content Summary:

Comprises: Correspondence, draft articles and off-prints.

Includes: Letter 7 June 1913 from D. Toganivalu (Nabouwalu) to K.L. Allardyce, Commissioner of Natives re material used for tambua before whales teeth; letter 21 July 1913 (copy) A.W. Brewster (Torquay) to Director, British Museum (Natural History) re identification of Fijian flower, the wood of which was used in early times for making tambua, with associated correspondence; 'Fiji: Tambua', G.K. Roth, reprint from Ethnographic Cranmorensis, privately circulated by the Granmore Ethnological Museum, Chislehurst, Kent, 1938.

(c. 145p.)

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M2786

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