Fiji Museum

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