Fiji Museum - Thurston Gardens, Suva |
Fiji Museum, interesting but not World Class |
Double Hulled Canoe Ratu Finau, the last Waqa Drua, 1913 |
Traditional Fijian Double Hulled Canoes are regarded as the most seaworthy of such vessels built in Oceania |
The drua or kalia, Fiji - late 1700's |
Tongiaki - the old form of Tongan sailing canoe |
Davui - Turtle fishermen's trumpet |
Eel trap, Fiji Museum |
Old photographs showing different types of fishing canoes |
Outrigger Canoe - Camakau |
Giant oar of the 1913 Ratu Finau |
Ratu Finau - double hulled canoe, 1913 |
1/10 scale model of the Drua, a traditional double-hulled Fijian canoe |
Domodomo - a massive double horned masthead dating from the 1870s |
The Ramarama was a large double hulled canoe built by the Mataitoga, descendants of Samoan boat builders brought from Tonga |
Bilibili House Raft - these were built for mostly one-way trips down the rivers from the interior |
Bilibili House Raft - "No Come Back" |
Simple thatched shelter on the bamboo bilibili house raft |
Outrigger Canoes, Fiji Museum |
Outrigger Canoes, Fiji Museum |
Rudder of the HMS Bounty raised on Pitcairn Island in 1932 |
Engraving of the Mutiny on the Bounty as Captain Bligh tossed a sword before being set adrift |
Map showing paths of Lapita, the ancestral Pacific Islanders, in their expansion across Melanesia |
Sigatoka pottery dates back more than 2500 years showing habitation on Viti Levu since ancient times |
Ancient skull from a burial excavated in the Sigatoka sand dunes |
Ancient tools, Fiji Museum |
Statuette carved from a whale's tooth by Tongan craftsmen kept in a Fijian spirit house |
3000 year old "Lapita" pottery from Tongatapu |
Pottery making died out in Tonga and Samoa about 2000 years ago so all their pottery was imported from Fiji |
Engraving of Fai Toka, the tired burial mound and spirit house of a high Tongan chief, late 1700s |
Broad blade axe adzes, Fiji Museum |
Fijian headrest or Kali with whale tooth inlands cut by Tongan craftsmen |
War club inland with whale tooth ornaments from Tonga |
Vuasagale cut from whale teeth for Fijian chiefs |
Shark luring rattles brought to Fiji by Samoan craftsmen |
Throwing club belonging to Cakobau, Vunivalu of the Bau - carved by the Mataitoga |
Broadlader war club carried by Tongan and Fijian chiefs |
The Broadlader design may have evolved as a shield to deflect Fijian arrows |
War Clubs - Fiji Museum |
War Clubs - Fiji Museum |
Facial tatoos - Fiji Museum |
House post in the form of a woman, Yabeyaga village, Vanua Levu, 1935 |
EEZ Whale Sanctuaries of the Pacific |
"Old Religion" based on ancestor worship - Fiji Museum |
Cannibal Fork - ai cula ni bokola, Fiji Museum |
Human-shaped plate for cannibal feasts, Fiji Museum |
Sorcerer's stick used in cursing ceremonies |
Staff in the shape of an eel - Fiji Museum |
Rev. Thomas Baker - main course at a cannibal feast |
Sacred Stone - Fiji Museum |
Puffer fish headdress - Banaban Community, Kiribati |
Fiji's first printing press, 1838 - Hopkinson & Cope, Finsbury - London |
Canoe Prow Ornament - Fiji Museum |
Female Head - Fiji Museum |
Old photograph of three Fijian men - Fiji Museum |
Old photograph of a village clan - Fiji Museum |
Fiji Museum |
Fiji's experiments in government, 1865-1871 |
Old photograph with a dwarf priets and two warriors of Lovoni, Ovalau, who were sold to Barnum, Coup & Costello's circus in 1871 |
Copy of the Instrument of Cession whereby Fiji passed to the UK in 1874 |
Instrument of Cessio of the Islands of Fiji by Thakombau...and by the other high Chiefs...to Her Most gracious Majesty Victoria |
Late 19th C. firearms, Fiji Museum |
Honours, Decorations and Medals of the Late Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, KCMG, KBE |
Canoe models - Fiji Museum |
Indians arrived in Fiji under indenture 1879-1920 |
Kalpalata - Indian art, Fiji Museum |
Kalpalata - Indian art, Fiji Museum |
Kalpalata - Indian art, Fiji Museum |
Dancing Shiva, Fiji Museum |