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Rob Wright
Ratu Alipate Ralulu, a former member of the Armed Native Constabulary, photographed in Somosomo
[Fiji in the Forties and Fifties, pl. 20]
1957, 19 June
Book illustration, based on gelatin silver print
Private collection of Ginnie Marlow
Used with the kind permission of Ginnie Marlow and Thomson Pacific Ltd.
LL/20228
This photograph is included in the book "Fiji in the Forties and Fifties" Photography by Rob Wright, Text by Sir Ian Thomson, Edited by Peter Thomson (Thomson Pacific Ltd., 1994, ISBN: 0473027402)
Further comment by Ginnie Marlow (May 2007):
Armed Native Constabulary was created in early 1870s during the Cannibal Wars. (Rob Wright's father was a Drill Instructor and fought in the Cannibal Wars)
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