Islanders Collection

Dressing Shetland Shawls
Women from the Shetland Islands dress Shetland wool shawls on large racks Date: 1908

St Kildans with Soay Sheep
St Kildans with the famous Soay Sheep. The group of islands is known as St Kilda - this particular island is actually called Hirta. Date: circa 1910s

Festival of Britain - View from River with Skylon
Festival of Britain - View of the South Bank site seen from over the River Thames, with Skylon, Shot Tower and Royal Festival Hall all visible

Faroe Islands, Denmark - Women Spinning
A woman working at a spinning wheel with two companions - The Faroe Islands, Denmark

American Samoa - Pago Pago - production of copra
Pago Pago, Capital of American Samoa - the cultivation of Coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) for the production of copra, the dried flesh of the coconut

The Schoolhouse, Pitcairn Island, Victorian period

A Family Group of Firewalkers - Fiji, Oceania. Only one family on one island possesses the mysterious secret of walking bare-footed on red hot stones. Date: 1924

Cannibalism Cooking Dead Humans Fiji Fijian Native
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People of the Andaman Islands, pictures with a European Anthropologist. The natives photographed used to speak a language that was called Bo

Sanish Troops attacking San Domingo Soldiers
Engagement between Spanish troops and San Domingo islanders in the pass of Monte Christi. From the top ridges of the pass Spanish soldiers fire at San Domingo forces

Proclamation of the Colony of Bay Islands
The British gained violent control of the Bay Islands from Honduras in 1838, but did little about any formalities or governance until March 1852

Hawaii: A group of Sandwich Islanders Date: circa 1830

Amsterdam islanders and their boats Date: circa 1770

SOCIAL / REUNION / BOURBON
Islanders of Reunion or Bourbon Island Date: 1813

Fijian Warriors on a visit to Balmoral, Scotland
Adolf Brester (1854-1937) with a group of Fijian Warriors (Armed Police) pictured in their uniforms standing in front of the castle on a visit to Balmoral, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Date: 1902

Islanders of Bugis, Makassar, and the Moluccas (Indonesia).. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Samoan woman, South Pacific. Date: circa 1890s

Solomon Islanders
Head hunters of the Solomon Islands. Date: 1934

Polynesians with spear, bow and arrow and leaf-shaped paddle
Four Polynesian Men and a boy armed with spear, bow and arrows and leaf-shaped paddle! Date: circa 1920s

Girls of the Federated States of Yap Island
Young girls of the Island of Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia - an Island in the Caroline Islands. Date: circa 1910s

A Florida Canoe - Solomon Islands. Date: circa 1910s

Sao Vicente - Two Cape Verde Islanders
Sao Vicente - Cape Verde Islands (the Republic of Cabo Verde). Finally gained independence from Portugal in 1975. Date: circa 1910

Convertion in Timor by Portuguese Dominican Friars
Portuguese Colonial History Series - The convertion of Native Timor Islanders by Portuguese Dominican Friars in 1511. Date: 1511

The Islanders sculpture, Festival of Britain, London
View of a colossal sculpture by the Austrian sculptor, Siegfried Charoux, entitled The Islanders, on the facade of the Sea and Ships Pavilion at the Festival of Britain exhibition on the South Bank

Three Generations of Pitcairn Islanders
Three Generations of male Pitcairn Islanders - the descendants of Fletcher Christian or John Adams - mutineers from the Bounty who settled on the islands in 1790

The Channel Island in German Hands
Exhausted evacuees arriving in England after a 20 hour journey from the Channel Islands following German occupation of the islands

Islanders with tattoos from Poggy and Naussau, natives of Java.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Skye crofters planting potatoes, Scotland. Date: late 19th century

Maravovo Village, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. Date: circa 1910s

Lifou Isle, New Claedonia, Pacific Ocean
Converted Cannibals of Lifou Isle (Drehu), Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, Pacific Ocean (a French Overseas territory). Date: 1910

Hawaii, USA - Making Poi - Staple food from the Taro Plant
Hawaii, USA - Making Poi. Primary Polynesian staple food mad fom the underground stem of the Taro Plant - known in Hawaii as Kalo. Date: circa 1910s

Pipe Player of the Solomon Islands, a collection of nearly one thousand islands in Oceania (that form a sovereign country) - performing music for a traditional dance. Date: circa 1930s

Nukapu, Solomon Islands - Patteson Memorial Cross. In 1871, a memorial was erected close to the hut where John Patteson, Bishop of Melanesia was killed. Date: circa 1910s

Two Britten-Norman BN2A Islanders G350 and G351
Two Britten-Norman BN2A Islanders, G350 and G351 of the Ghana Air Force

Two Britten-Norman BN2A Islanders G-BaE and N20JA
Two Britten-Norman BN2A Islanders, G-BaE and N20JA

Mission on The Gilbert Islands (2 / 9)
The Republic of Kiribati (the Gilbert Islands) - an indigenous elderly couple at the Catholic Mission Date: circa 1910

Guernsey - Battle of the Flowers
Guernsey, Channel Islands - Battle of the Flowers. The Battle is a classic island event, where locals compete to win the prestigious Prix DHonneur award for the best mobile floral float

Crofters Cottage, Orkney
A Croft in the Orkneys - surrounded by a field of lupins. Date: 1920s

Mission on The Gilbert Islands (7 / 9)
The Republic of Kiribati (the Gilbert Islands) Date: circa 1910

Mission on The Gilbert Islands (1 / 9)
The Republic of Kiribati (the Gilbert Islands) - a group of indigenous men and boys and members of the Catholic mission Date: circa 1910

Mission on The Gilbert Islands (4 / 9)
The Republic of Kiribati (the Gilbert Islands) - The Convent of Catholic Sisters at Tarawa Date: circa 1910

Mission on The Gilbert Islands (3 / 9)
The Republic of Kiribati (the Gilbert Islands) - A group of indigenous people from Nonouti at the Mission Date: circa 1910

Mission on The Gilbert Islands (6 / 9)
The Republic of Kiribati (the Gilbert Islands) Date: circa 1910

Mission on The Gilbert Islands (8 / 9)
The Republic of Kiribati (the Gilbert Islands) Date: circa 1910

Mission on The Gilbert Islands (9 / 9)
The Republic of Kiribati (the Gilbert Islands) Date: circa 1910

Mission on The Gilbert Islands (5 / 9)
The Republic of Kiribati (the Gilbert Islands) - The Convent School Date: circa 1910

Virgin Islanders
A jolly-looking middle aged couple of West Indian Virgin Islanders at the market on Tortola, Virgin Islands, West Indies. Date: late 1960s

Inter-village cricket match in Fiji
A scene from an inter-village cricket (or Kirikiti, as it was pronounced locally) match on the island of Fiji, as described in Lieut.-Colonel T.R.St-Johnstons book, South Sea Reminiscences

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