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Kwaisulia
Kwaisulia (early 1850s – 1909) was a prominent tradesman, strongman and blackbirder on the island of Malaita in the late nineteenth century, who for several decades held political control over the north of the island. Born on the island of Sulufou in the Lau Lagoon, Kwaisulia was exposed to Europeans through his friendship with the marooned Scotsman Jack Renton. Not being a member of any traditionally prominent families on the island, Kwaisulia began his rise to prominence by enlisting as a labourer in the Queensland sugar cane industry during the 1870s. Upon his return to Malaita he asserted himself as a leading recruiter of labour for the Queensland sugar cane farms, a role which included blackbirding. Becoming an intermediary between the people of the Lau Lagoon and European traders, Kwaisulia controlled trade between Malaita and the rest of the world, acquiring significant wealth and power as a result. Dying in 1909, Kwaisulia left behind numerous issue, and has a controvers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cromar
John "Jock" Cromar (1859/1860–1942) was a Scottish-Australian seaman and author, who wrote the book ''Jock of the Islands'', a supposed retelling of his experiences in Melanesia during the late 19th century. Described by Charles Morris Woodford as a "derelict of the labor trade", Cromar was for several decades active in the recruiting industry in the Solomon Islands. Life and career Cromar was born in Aberdeen, and entered into sailing "at a young age". At the age of 23, Cromar was recruited onto the schooner ''Forest King'', which recruited kanaka labour for sugar and cotton plantations in Queensland. From 1885 to 1886 Cromar was a recruiting officer on the ship ''Helena'', under the command of Aisiselaus Tonarus. Throughout his life, he managed numerous plantations on the Solomon Islands, and was the captain of several small ships. He had good relations with Kwaisulia, the strongest political leader in the area, but somewhat more strained relations with Foulanga, another p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Renton
John (Jack) Renton (1848-1878), also known as The White Headhunter, was a Scottish seaman from Orkney. In 1868, he was among four or five deserters from the American ship ''Renard'', which specialised in the trade of guano. He and the other deserters travelled in a small boat for 2,000 miles, and eventually landed at Maana'oba (Manaoba), a small island off the north-east coast of Malaita Island in the Solomon Islands. He became a slave of a bigman named Kabbou for 8 years, in which he learnt the Lau language, participated in the island's culture, and became a headhunter. While on Malaita, he befriended a local warrior, Kwaisulia, and taught him English. He is the only European to have been a headhunter and was the first European to live for a long period on Malaita. Renton was rescued by a Royal Navy schooner called the ''Bobtailed Nag'' in 1875, being traded for "a dozen tomahawks, several yards of calico, some pipes, ndtobacco", as well as several other items, along with a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adagege
Adagege, alternatively spelled Ada Gege or Ada-gege, is an artificial island built on the reef in the Lau Lagoon on Malaita in the Solomon Islands; it is located in Malaita Province. The road from Auki ends at Fouia wharf opposite the islands of Sulufou and Adaege in the Lau Lagoon. History Originally settled by refugees from south of the Lau Lagoon, Adagage was taken over by the inhabitants of Sulufou and was converted into a specialised island for women to give birth at, later it was ritually cleansed and turned into a village. During the late 19th and early 20th century Adagege was the power base of Kwaisulia, a prominent strongman in the area who held influence across northern Malaita, during which time it was fortified with barbed wire A close-up view of a barbed wire Roll of modern agricultural barbed wire Barbed wire, also known as barb wire, is a type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strands. Its primary use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malaita
Malaita is the primary island of Malaita Province in Solomon Islands. Malaita is the most populous island of the Solomon Islands, with a population of 161,832 as of 2021, or more than a third of the entire national population. It is also the second largest island in the country by area, after Guadalcanal. A tropical and mountainous island, Malaita's river systems and tropical forests are being exploited for ecosystem stability by keeping them pristine. The largest city and provincial capital is Auki, on the northwest coast and is on the northern shore of the Langa Langa Lagoon. The people of the Langa Langa Lagoon and the Lau Lagoon on the northeast coast of Malaita call themselves ''wane i asi'' ‘salt-water people’ as distinct from ''wane i tolo'' ‘bush people’ who live in the interior of the island. South Malaita Island, also known as ''Small Malaita'' and ''Maramasike'' for 'Are'are language, Areare speakers and Malamweimwei known to more than 80% of the islanders, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Hopkins (missionary)
Arthur Innes Hopkins (1869 – 1943) was a British Anglican missionary active in the north of the island of Malaita. Early life Hopkins was born in York to a devoutly Christian family. He was sickly as a child and suffered from numerous serious illnesses, but he nonetheless completed his education at several local schools. Hopkins was ordained as a deacon in 1892 and as a priest in 1893. Hopkins wished to work as a missionary, and applied to the Missionary Council for Service Abroad in 1900 in order to do so. Lau Lagoon In 1903, he set up a missionary base in the Lau Lagoon under the orders of Charles Morris Woodford. Hopkins was sent to the Lau Lagoon in order to preempt the possibility of the Methodist Church setting up a mission in the area, as the Anglican colonial authorities did not wish for the Methodists to gain influence. After arriving at the mission, Hopkins was placed under 24-hour guard, as the mission was under constant threat of attack from locals. Hopkins became i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sulufou
Sulufou is an artificial island built on the reef in the Lau Lagoon on Malaita in the Solomon Islands; it is located in Malaita Province. The road from Auki Auki is the provincial capital of Malaita Province, Solomon Islands. It is situated on the northern end of Langa Langa Lagoon on the north-west coast of Malaita Island. It is one of the largest provincial towns in Solomon Islands. It was establi ... ends at Fouia wharf opposite the islands of Sulufou and Adaege in the Lau Lagoon. References Islands of the Solomon Islands {{SolomonIslands-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Keesing
Roger Martin Keesing (16 May 1935 – 7 May 1993) was an American linguist and anthropologist, most notable for his fieldwork on the Kwaio people of Malaita in the Solomon Islands, and his writings on a wide range of topics including kinship, religion, politics, history, cognitive anthropology and language. Keesing was a major contributor to anthropology.Lewis, Herbert S. (1998) The Misrepresentation of Anthropology and its Consequences' ''American Anthropologist'' 100:" 716-731 He was the son of anthropologists, Felix M. Keesing, another distinguished anthropologist with an interest in the South Pacific and Marie Margaret Martin Keesing, also an anthropologist of the Pacific. Keesing studied at Stanford and Harvard and began work in 1965 at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 1974 he became a professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra, heading the Department of Anthropology from 1976. In 1990 he moved to McGill Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Center For Pacific Islands Studies
The Center for Pacific Islands Studies, in the University of Hawaii at Mānoa School of Pacific and Asian Studies, is both an academic department and a research center on the Pacific Islands and issues of concern to Pacific Islanders. Its instructional program is regional, comparative, and interdisciplinary in nature. The university's Pacific Collection is a comprehensive collections of Pacific materials. The center provides international conferences, Web-based resources, its Pacific Islands Monograph Series, and its journal, The Contemporary Pacific ''The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs'' is an academic journal covering a wide range of disciplines with the aim of providing comprehensive coverage of contemporary developments in the entire Pacific Islands region, including Mel .... References External links *international conferences [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish scholarly and scientific works by faculty of the University of California, established 25 years earlier in 1868, and has been officially headquartered at the university's flagship campus in Berkeley, California, since its inception. As the non-profit publishing arm of the University of California system, the UC Press is fully subsidized by the university and the State of California. A third of its authors are faculty members of the university. The press publishes over 250 new books and almost four dozen multi-issue journals annually, in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, and maintains approximately 4,000 book titles in print. It is also the digital publisher of Collabra and Luminos open access (OA) initiatives. The University of California Press publishes in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Islands Monthly
''Pacific Islands Monthly'', commonly referred to as "PIM", was a magazine founded in 1930 in Sydney by New Zealand born journalist R.W. Robson. Background ''Pacific Islands Monthly'' was started in Sydney in 1930. The first issue ran in August 1930. It consisted of 12 pages and was in the format of a newspaper. The following year it was presented in magazine format. Its founder Robert William Robson, who was originally from New Zealand, moved to Sydney, Australia during World War I. The journalists for the magazine were said to be some of the Pacific's most respected. During the 1940s the magazine included advertisements for W. R. Carpenter & Co. The magazine ran for approximately 70 years with the first issue on 16 August 1930 and the last issue on 1 June 2000. ''Pacific Islands Monthly'' (1931-2000) has been digitised, and is now freely available online through Trove Trove is an Australian online library database owned by the National Library of Australia in which i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maasina Ruru
Maasina Ruru was an emancipation movement for self-government and self-determination in the British Solomon Islands during and after World War II, 1945–1950, credited with creating the movement towards independence for the Solomon Islands. The name is from the 'Are'are language meaning the Rule of "relationship of siblings together" and is often corrupted to "Marching Rule", "Marxist Rule", or "Rule of Brotherhood". Foundation and influences The movement was created after Nori, Aliki Nono'oohimae, Jonathan Fiifii'i, and a host of others from Malaita who worked together in the Solomon Islands Labour Corps during World War II. One of the influences is said to have been the African-American soldiers whose humane treatment of the fellow workers was markedly different from the plantation owners. They spread a message of independence amongst the Malaitan soldiers who began a campaign of non-compliance and civil disobedience. They were also influenced by other revolutionary or ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dynamite
Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents (such as powdered shells or clay), and Stabilizer (chemistry), stabilizers. It was invented by the Swedish people, Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel in Geesthacht, Northern Germany, and patented in 1867. It rapidly gained wide-scale use as a more robust alternative to gun powder, black powder. History Dynamite was invented by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel in the 1860s and was the first safely manageable explosive stronger than black powder. Alfred Nobel's father, Immanuel Nobel, was an industrialist, engineer, and inventor. He built bridges and buildings in Stockholm and founded Sweden's first rubber factory. His construction work inspired him to research new methods of blasting rock that were more effective than black powder. After some bad business deals in Sweden, in 1838 Immanuel moved Nobel family, his family to Saint Petersburg, where Alfred and his brothers were educated privately under Swedish and Russi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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