Teone Vahini (Mrs. Pito)
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PrintTeone Vahini, Mrs. Pito, making "popoi". A Polynesian, Teone was one of the persons the Clarkes met while living for 3 months on Rapa Island while collecting natural history specimens in 1963. J. F. Gates (John Frederick Gates) Clarke, 1905-1990, was curator of Lepidoptera at the National Museum of National History.
Clarke, John Frederick Gates
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Photograph included in the transcript of John Frederick Gates Clarke by Pamela M. Henson, April 30, 1986, in Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 9555 Box 1, John Frederick Gates Clarke Oral History Interview
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1963
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Austral Islands
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Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print