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Ratu Timoci Tavanavanua, Roko Tui Dreketi 1847 - 1888 (41 years)«Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next» » Slide Show Loading... Ratu Timoci Tavanavanua Roko Tui Dreketi Ratu Timoci Tavanavanua, second of three sons of Cakobau by Adi Litia, He wears a chiefly red-brown smoked barkcloth headscarf (i-sala kuvui) and wabale shoulder-sash, and a masi barkcloth cummerbund (i-oro), but his i-sulu skirt seems to be a tasselled Western cloth, perhaps a counterpane. Ratu Timoci and his manservant were the ones who introduced the measles to Fiji from NSW, starting (but surviviing) the epidemic that wiped out a fifth of the Fijian polulation
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