Banaba Monument

I put up this photo elsewhere on the Internet, and there has been surprising interest. The photo was taken by my father, a Chief Missionary with the LMS. I have put this photo on this blog before, but here it is, improved. It would be easy to miss it -- the grave expressions on the faces of Takeiti Teriuea (left) and Rev. Eritaia Tabutoa (right). I have many photos of them, but in none do they look severe. They are standing at a monument to Albert Fuller Ellis. Ellis was knighted for his deeds, yet brought ruin for the people and the environments of Nauru and Banaba. That surely is one reason for the interest in this photo. Related to that, every resident of Banaba must have made the pilgrimage to this monument. OBSERVATION: Today, most Banabans live on Rabi island in Fiji, where they were relocated. This may be the only photo of the monument on the Internet.