The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 16 August 1930Vol. 1 No. 1

Recent Visitors to San Francisco

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These two Fijian village headmen created much interest in San Francisco recently when they arrived to attend the International Conference of Seventh Day Adventists. Residents of Fiji, to whom they are well known, will be interested to learn that the American papers said their names were “Ratu Jiali Tikowale and Setareki Shadrack Cevaca”; that they were the grandsons of cannibals ; and that they were “dressed in English coats with smart cravats and short skirts instead of trousers.”

They dressed and posed for this photograph in San Francisco. ... ———