DO YOU KNOW THIS YOUNG WOMAN DANCING IN BA?
Photograph taken by Whites Aviation, 24 September 1949
Do you know
people who could help with a puzzle we're trying to solve?
An exhibition called 'Island Style: Dancing
the Pacific' will open at the Turnbull Gallery in the National
Library of New Zealand on 18 March 2013.
We
have a photograph of a young Fijian woman that was taken at Ba in
September 1949 by Whites Aviation Ltd. There is no record of her name.
We are using it in the exhibition,
and it is also on the poster advertising the Turnbull Gallery programme
for this year.
It is hoped that someone from Ba might recognise her, even after all these years. The photograph is on the National
Library of New Zealand web site at:
There are three more Whites Aviation Ltd photographs of her at
Whites
Aviation seems to have been touring the road from Nadi, through Lautoka
and Ba up to Rakiraki at the time. There are lots of more photographs
of hotels (mostly Northern
Hotels Ltd) and their amenities, and local townships and people. We're guessing that the young woman may have worked at the Ba hotel, as garden
shown in the background is similar to other shots of the hotel there.
We would love to find out her name, and perhaps a bit more about her. Her
family might not know about the photographs either. If you are able to
suggest anyone that we might
contact, we would be very grateful.
Please Leave your response in the COMMENTS Section below!!
Vinaka vakalevu.
