Andrew Garrett; Barnabas; Native missionary from the Tonga Islands; ambrotype; height: 11.60 cm; width: 8.90 cm; inscribed: handwritten in black on case mounted paper: Barnabas; Native missionary from the Tonga Islands; currently in Savoy; Samoa Islands; employed by the Wesleyan mission; the most educated Polynesian; Dr. Dr. Graeffe encountered on the South Sea Islands. Phot. 1868 by A. Garrett on Ovalau; portrait photography; portrait; bust; bust; spreading the gospel; missionary work; Barnabas 'Ahongalu; The Ambrotype by Andrew Garrett is one of the rare portraits of native South Sea missionaries of the 19th century. Barnabas 'Ahongalu was born around 1820 on the island of Vava'u in the Kingdom of Tonga and probably came into contact with the Christian religion during his childhood. Since about 1835 he worked as a missionary of the Wesleyan Methodists in Samoa; Tonga and the Fiji Islands. There he met the American naturalist Garrett in 1868. Garrett supplied various collectors and institutions with natural objects; descriptions and drawings. Among his customers was the Hamburg merchant Johann Cesar VI Godeffroy; who combined his business activities in the South Seas with the promotion of the sciences and the establishment of a private museum. Garrett was the only scientist working for Godeffroy who took photographs himself. A directory of the Godeffroy Museum from 1880 lists 26 portrait photographs of him. After the company went bankrupt and the museum was closed; its holdings were sold to various institutions until 1885. (Sven Schumacher)