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✧ Goniobranchus reticulatus ✧

Goniobranchus reticulatus is a small, colourful species of sea slug in the family Chromodorididae. It is found in the western Indo-Pacific and originally described from Tongatapu, Tonga. It has a white mantle covered in a reddish reticulate pattern, with yellow edging on the foot and appendages. Sever...

#indopacific #tongatapu #tonga #anilao #familychromodorididae #wikipedia
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga. 1963
Dancing boys, two in the foreground, and a number obscured, with one fully visible to the left. The boys have woven hats from coconut palm leaves, and seed pod anklets, they have woven skirts over their shorts. Each boy is dancing with a wooden spear held out flat in front of them.

#Nukualofa #Tonga #moe_tahurangi #Matapihi #Kōtuia #Dance #Indigenouspeoples #Spears #Performances #Nukualofa(Tonga) #Tongan #photographicgelatin #photographicpaper #silver #gelatinsilverprints #worksofart #Contemporary #Tongatapu

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Longoteme, Tonga 1963
A man (left) sits on a fallen tree trunk, a young unclothed girl (right) stands in front of a young boy who is squatting and holding the tail of a puppy. Another puppy is sitting directly facing the children. In the centre foreground a pot is on an open fire. In the background is a fale with wooden stick walls and coconut palm leaf woven roofing. A paddle (centre) is leaning against the fale.

#Longoteme #Tonga #moe_tahurangi #Matapihi #Kōtuia #Children #Campfires #Cauldrons #photographicgelatin #photographicpaper #silver #gelatinsilverprints #worksofart #Contemporary #Tongatapu

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Longoteme, Tonga 1963
A large breadfruit tree dominates the right foreground. Two boys ride a horse bareback, with a full sack sitting in front of the front boy. There are three fale visible, one obscured behind the breadfruit tree, one in the background and the other to the left. A tree stump and two tree trunks are in front of the left fale. A couple of small woven mats are lying near the stump.

#Longoteme #Tonga #moe_tahurangi #Matapihi #Kōtuia #Horses #Horsebackriding #Trees #Villages #Tongan #photographicgelatin #photographicpaper #silver #gelatinsilverprints #worksofart #Contemporary #Tongatapu

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Nuku'alofa, Tonga. 1963
Two girls sit cross-legged on a woven mat. Girl (left) has a young child on her lap. The girl (right) is beating paper mulberry bark on a large log with a small wooden mallet to make ngatu (tapa cloth). They are sitting underneath a fale.

#Nukualofa #Tonga #moe_tahurangi #Matapihi #Kōtuia #Girls #Manners&customs #Indigenouspeoples #Infants #photographicgelatin #photographicpaper #silver #gelatinsilverprints #worksofart #Contemporary #Tongan #Textiles #Tongatapu

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Longoteme, Tonga. 1963
Eleven women with seven young children are seated cross-legged on coconut palm leaves in a semi circle. One woman in the centre of the circle is pouring water into a kava bowl which another woman is making. They are seated beneath a breadfruit tree. In the background is a fale with weaved coconut palm leaf thatching for the sides and roofing.

#Longoteme #Tonga #moe_tahurangi #Matapihi #Kōtuia #Women #Children #Leaves #Palms #photographicgelatin #photographicpaper #silver #gelatinsilverprints #worksofart #Contemporary #Tongatapu

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Longoteme, Tonga 1963
Woman (mother) and four young children. Woman sitting on a low wooden stool dressing a child (right). A young boy (centre left) squats on the stool holding a coconut. A young girl is in the foregound and another boy is partly obscured behind her. They are directly in front of the entry to a fale.

#Longoteme #Tonga #Tongan #moe_tahurangi #Matapihi #Kōtuia #Children #Coconuts #Women #Tables #Basins #photographicgelatin #photographicpaper #silver #gelatinsilverprints #worksofart #Contemporary #Tongatapu

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Viliame, Longoteme, Tonga 1963
Boy (side on) drinking from a coconut. The boy is wearing a white short sleeved shirt and a [shell/flower?] necklace.

#Viliame #Longoteme #Tonga #moe_tahurangi #Matapihi #Kōtuia #Coconuts #Children #Eating&drinking #photographicgelatin #photographicpaper #silver #gelatinsilverprints #worksofart #Contemporary #Tongatapu

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Longoteme, Tonga. 1963
Two young girls are walking (from left to right) with a young child in each of their arms. The girl (left) has a dark blanket about her and the child; the girl (right) has a white blanket wrapped around her and the child. There are two fale in the near distance. The branches of a breadfruit tree are visible to the right.

#Longoteme #Tonga #Tongan #moe_tahurangi #Matapihi #Kōtuia #Girls #Infants #Blankets #Indigenouspeoples #Tongatapu(Tonga) #photographicgelatin #photographicpaper #silver #gelatinsilverprints #worksofart #Contemporary #Tongatapu

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