Pandanus basket, Vanuatu, 1883-1900

Pandanus basket, Vanuatu, 1883-1900

Location

Australia
E5616
Queensland Museum
Penama, Vanuatu
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia

Pacific Islander wooden club, c1870s

Pacific Islander wooden club, c1870s

Location

Australia
E6970
Queensland Museum
Malampa, Vanuatu
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
1100mm
137mm

South Sea Islander cane knife

South Sea Islander cane knife

Location

Erakala Mackay, QLD
Australia
21° 8' 28.356" S, 149° 11' 8.25" E
E16946
Queensland Museum
Mackay
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Erakala Mackay, QLD
Australia
21° 8' 28.356" S, 149° 11' 8.25" E
Dimensions
651mm
157mm

When I was a child I would ask my mother where we came from, she would take a tea towel from the drawer and show me a map of the New Hebrides.

Solomon Island canoe paddle, 1884

Solomon Island canoe paddle, 1884

Location

Solomon Islands
E4508
Queensland Museum
Solomon Islands
1 January 1884
28 October 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum

Solomon Islands
Dimensions
1412mm
413mm

South Sea Islander recruitment, New Hebrides, 1893

Australia
1 January 1893
22 October 2010
22 October 2010

Location

Australia

Collection of Queensland State Archives

Map of the New Hebrides with handwritten numbers indicating where and how many South Sea Islanders were taken on board during the twentieth voyage of the Labour Vessel, Ariel, 1893 and list of Islanders 'recruited' on this voyage. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

White Society used them as labourers when needed and discarded them when no longer needed: they were coerced and expendable labour

The Swallow family and members of their staff at Hambledon Sugar Plantation outside Cairns, c1889.

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 171012

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