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#3011Z Fijian visitor to Hobart Original carte-de-visite photograph, c 1870 103 x 62 mm Photographer: Henry Hall Baily This image almost certainly has some connection with the Wesleyan Mission to Fiji. Tasmania provided several missionaries to Fiji during the 19th century, most notably John Waterhouse (1840's) and his sons Samuel and Joseph. The latter was in Fiji from 1850-64 and again from 1874-8, and the visitor in this photograph, who wears a Fijian tapa cloth and holds a Fijian spear, was probably associated with the Mission and Waterhouse in some way. Some of the objects brought back by the Waterhouse family and other missionaries are in the Tasmanian Museum Collection. See Ewins, Rod Fijian Artefacts: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection, p 2. Superb condition.