Journal of Edwin H. Bryan, Jr. while with the Whitney Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History on the schooner France, February to October 1924
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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.