FIJIANS MAKE READY TO GREET THEIR QUEEN. —Radio photographs from Suva taken during the full-dress rehearsal of the welcome which awaits the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. LEFT: Natives practising the spear and fan dance to be performed before the Royal visitors tomorrow. RIGHT: The traditional kava ritual being rehearsed. Kava is the national drink of Fijians and is offered to honoured guests with elaborate ceremony.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27224, 16 December 1953, Page 12
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67FIJIANS MAKE READY TO GREET THEIR QUEEN.—Radio photographs from Suva taken during the full-dress rehearsal of the welcome which awaits the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. LEFT: Natives practising the spear and fan dance to be performed before the Royal visitors tomorrow. RIGHT: The traditional kava ritual being rehearsed. Kava is the national drink of Fijians and is offered to honoured guests with elaborate ceremony. Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27224, 16 December 1953, Page 12
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