Norman Hardy painting
text accompanying painting - JOHNNIE PRATT WITH HIS IVORY NUTS, AT SIMBO, SOLOMON ISLANDS - At the time when I did the original sketch from which this picture was made, Johnnie Pratt, a French trader, was in health and prosperity. He had his small house with the copra and boat sheds down on a narrow beach under the shelter of a tropical forest that spread upwards over the hills round a lovely little bay. He was a jolly chap, and when last I saw him was singing among his " boys at work. He had married a native girl, daughter of a local chief, and at the birth of their child this chief gave him the fore-shore round the bay. He seemed to have had a happy time as times go in these parts, although attempts on his life had been made more than once on a neighbouring island. I do not remember now when it happened, but not far from his place he was murdered, and so came to the end many traders do in the wild Solomons. The drawing shows Pratt taking tally of the weight of the sacks of ivory nuts which the "boys" are bringing from the sheds to be put into boats. The native in the foreground is wearing a sunshade.
Size: 4960px × 7015px
Location: Soloman Islands
Photo credit: © steeve-x-art / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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