Samoan Collection

Samoan Women - Making Kawa-Kawa. Kawakawa is one of the most distinctive Pacific native plants. It was one of the most important healing herbs in Rongoa Maori (traditional Maori medicine)

American Samoa - Pago Pago - production of copra
Pago Pago, Capital of American Samoa - the cultivation of Coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) for the production of copra, the dried flesh of the coconut

A Samoan Chief's Daughter Victorian period

Samoan woman, South Pacific. Date: circa 1890s

Samoan Woman
Beautiful portrait photograph of a Samoan Woman in traditional (un)dress. Date: circa 1910

Taro Plantation - Samoa - Pacific Ocean. Taro is a root vegetable native to Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. Taro features in traditional desserts such as Samoan " fa ausi"

Samoan Girl - Fiji
Beautiful photographic portrait of a Samoan Girl - Fiji - note the coral and bean beads. Date: circa 1910s

Samoa - Banyan Tree
A fine Banyan Tree, Apia, Samoa

Samoan Dancer
A traditional dance, apparently unaccompanied except by handclapping and perhaps singing

Private residence of Robert Louis Stevenson - Samoa
The Private residence of Robert Louis Stevenson at Vailima, Samoa from 1890 onwards. Later the Governors Residence (extensively re-modelled on a number of occasions). Date: circa 1910s

Samoa - Hoisting the Union flag - World War One
Samoa - Hoisting the Union flag - 30th August, 1914. At the outbreak of World War One, New Zealand troops landed on Upolu unopposed on 29th August 1914 and seized control from the German authorities

Samoan Chief
A superb postcard depiction of a Samoan chief with headdress decorated with shells, feathers and flowers and round gold plates and a fine handlebar moustache

Perouse / Massacred / Easter
De Langle and other members of La Perouses voyage are massacred at Maouna, Samoan Islands

Stevenson and Belle
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON in the library at Vailima, Upsilu, Samoan Islands, with his stepdaughter Belle, who acted as his amanuensis

Samoan Tree House
A Samoan tree-house, built over the water, presumably for coolness

Noblemans Outing
When a Samoan person of consequence goes out, he does so in a formal procession with a huge umbrella to shield him from the sun and a retinue of servants

Samoa Village Scene
A Samoan village. Inset - a young Samoan woman

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