Portrait of a Fijian man probably associated with the Wesleyan Methodist mission. Fijian Islands, circa 1907.

Photographer unknown.

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Large format silver bromide print photograph, 290 x 245 mm, on its original board mount, 450 x 385 mm; the print is a little over-exposed but is in good condition; the versois annotated in pencil by a picture-framer with the customer name 'Danks', and the instruction '1 pol[ished] oak, at once'; the print was removed from its frame at some point. It seems reasonable to speculate that this photograph belonged to Australian Wesleyan Methodist missionary Benjamin Danks, who is best remembered for his pioneer missionary work in New Britain. In the early 1900s he served as general-secretary to the Wesleyan Methodist mission in Australia, and it was in this capacity that he visited the Fijian Islands as part of a Wesleyan delegation in 1906-07. From theDaily Telegraph (Sydney), 14 February 1907: 'FIJIAND ITS FUTURE.AWAKENING OF THE PEOPLE.THE SPREAD OF EDUCATION.A STATE OF GREAT PROSPERITY."We found the colony in a state of the greatest prosperity," said Rev. J. E. Carruthers toa "Daily Telegraph" representative last night."All the products of the place are commandingbig prices, and commercially it has never beforebeen in the state of prosperity it is in to-day."Mr. Carruthers is one of a commission recently appointed to visitFijiin the interestsof the Methodist missions there. His colleagues on the trip were Revs.BenjaminDanks(the organising secretary of the missions), HenryBath (Victoria), J. N. Buller (N.Z.), and Mr. T.H. England (Sydney).The party returned by the Suva yesterday.'. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 40974

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