Tiqa match / Natives in javelin throwing competition, 1876

Tiqa match / Natives in javelin throwing competition, 1876

Arthur John Lewis Gordon
Sweden, 1847–1918, active Fiji

Ink and wash
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,
University of Cambridge: Z 4142

EX.8785.131 Photo (c) Museum Associates/ LACMA

British colonial officer Arthur J. L. Gordon made several drawings that included depictions of incidents in the highlands of Viti Levu during the Little War of 1876, an uprising against the colonial administration.