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same sp. as on Johnson and Wake.
There is also a gecko and a large black
salamander-like lizard like an alligator. Mr. McFall will collect
and send.
Plates:-
Roll 4:6
Patau tree, one or two fully 40 feet high near the native camp
with my guide and a native boy, Pate, in front of the huge tire
(1156X)
Roll 5:1
Gathering coconuts for copra. Large pile of shelled coconuts
and laborers with their coconut-Leaf baskets near west end of
Island looking S.W.
(11364)
Roll 5:2
Low marsh-seep, in which are grown bananas; with hau, sedge,
grass, etc.
(11370)
Roll 5:3
Another "Kepuka" showing the embankment by which the E-W
"road" crosses, lined with young coconut palms; with hau and
pandanus behind, sedge and grass in foreground.
(11371)
Roll 5:4
Hau (fiber plant) on right, dead buka tree on Left and Live
buka-Val in background and coconut palms; torotoro (beach)
Vine and tangle of grass in foreground.
(11372)
Roll 5:5
A little enclosed patch of "fame" (dry-land taro) and a plant
of "urfi" (on the pole). The small boy is sitting on the end
of a fallen buka trunk fully 4 feet in dia.; in the background
are coconut palms and a buka-val tree. S.E.-Central part of
Island, looking west.
(11373)
Roll 5:6
A non-typical, but inclusive picture of the marginal plant
barrier showing coconut "karaihi" = puspua, ssevoVola, pandanus,
tourfortla, and beach runner.
(11374)
Roll 6:1
A "Kepuka" filled with hau, pandanus, buka and kenava tree
in center between the coconuts.
Roll 6:2
Manager McFall, family and Mr. and Mrs. Correia in front of
manager's house.
(11375)
Roll 6:3
Nearly entire population of Nassan, (mostly billice boys) in
front of one of the native houses.
(11377)
Roll 6:4
Native baskets, the center one used to carry coconuts. They
are made of coconut leaves.
(11378)
Roll 6:5
Canoe and S. shore of Nassan from the "Pierre," looking N.E.
Roll 6:6
South side of Nassan, looking N.
(11379)
Left south side Nassan about 6 P.M.
Sspent evening developing two rolls of films.