Traditional FIJIAN ARTEFACTS Book Colour and black and white

Colour and black and white photographs throughout

then this is the book for you

died in the Hobart Zoo

and the mighty mantis in this book about bugs for children

Black Tom Birch was the most feared and hated man in Van Diemen's Land

Traditional FIJIAN ARTEFACTS Book Colour and black and whiteArt has always been integral to the culture of the indigenous people of Fiji. Its quality was quickly recognised by the first Westerners to visit, who collected it avidly, and a quantity of material found its way to Tasmania. It came via seamen for whom the busy port of Hobart was a transit stop or a home port; from Wesleyan missionaries headquartered there for a time and then continued to support the Mission in Fiji; and from collectors who have