Photographs of White Sunday at Solo-Solo [Solosolo, Upolu Island, Samoa]

Photographs taken at Solo-Solo, with notes, including preparations for White Sunday, outside and inside the church, children walking in procession, Tapa cloth, CWM missionaries, Samoan Fale's traditional houses, Samoan wedding (Papauta Pastor and daughter), students taught by Eleanor Stronge in 1982...

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Order number: CWM/CWM, Photographs, Box 4
Date(s) of creation: Oct 1983
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
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scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/CWM, Photographs, Box 4
callnumber CWM/CWM/06/05/01/04/01/02
callnumber_txt CWM/CWM/06/05/01/04/01/02
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prefix_number 02
title Photographs of White Sunday at Solo-Solo [Solosolo, Upolu Island, Samoa]
scb_date_creation Oct 1983
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 28 colour prints
format Archive
scb_admin_history White Sunday is a holiday falling on the second Sunday in May. It is a day for parents and communities to acknowledge and celebrate childhood by hosting special programs during church services which include scriptural recitations, Biblical story reenactments and creative dance performances. Children receive gifts (often new clothing and/or school supplies) on White Sunday and are allowed privileges normally reserved for elders, such as being the first to be served food at family meal time. On White Sunday, women and children dress completely in white clothing. Some of them trim the clothes with the other two colors of the Samoan flag, red and blue. Men will wear white shirts with either white slacks or the traditional 'i.e. faitaga form of the lavalava. If a lavalava is worn it need not be white. White Sunday is also celebrated in Tonga. In the Samoan language the holiday is called "Lotu Tamaiti," literally "Children's Service" or "Prayer for Children." [Source: Wikipedia]
description Photographs taken at Solo-Solo, with notes, including preparations for White Sunday, outside and inside the church, children walking in procession, Tapa cloth, CWM missionaries, Samoan Fale's traditional houses, Samoan wedding (Papauta Pastor and daughter), students taught by Eleanor Stronge in 1982, Samoan graves.
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_scripts_material Latin
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