Set of mounted photographs of groups and places in Samoa from collection of Huckett
Groups include: "Half-caste" boys with football; "Half-caste" girls in white western dresses; large outdoor group of mission personnel and students gathered for farewell to Mr. Huckett; J R Moore with Sapolu, Chief of Vaiala, family and Fiti, a guide; group including Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson seate...
| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/South Seas/Photographs/Box 2 |
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| Date(s) of creation: |
c.1880 - c.1900 |
| Level: |
File |
| Format: | Archive |
| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/South Seas/Photographs/Box 2 |
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| Summary: |
Groups include: "Half-caste" boys with football; "Half-caste" girls in white western dresses; large outdoor group of mission personnel and students gathered for farewell to Mr. Huckett; J R Moore with Sapolu, Chief of Vaiala, family and Fiti, a guide; group including Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson seated for Samoan feast; Mr & Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson on steps of house with Man o' Wars band; Samoan missionary meeting [outdoor]; "German officials spying" at Missionary meeting [outdoor]NL Events include: Unveiling the Anglo-American monument "Reading the burial service" 30 July 1900. People include: Mataafa, High Chief, 1901 [led the Samoans against the Germans]; Tamasese, royal prince [d.1915]; types of Samoan beauty; Activites include: building a native house, Samoa; Kava making ceremony by village virgin in prescence of Chief Seumanu, Apia [Upolu]. Places or buildings include: Interior of English church, Apia [Upolu]; native built church, Apia [Upolu]; [Robert Louis] Stevenson 's house, Vailima; chief's house. Also includes: bunch of bananas; bread fruit trees. Prints taken by: [Alfred John] Tattersall; Andrew. |
| Extent: |
21 mounted albumen prints |
| Access status: |
Open |
| Copyright: | Copyright held by Alfred John Tattersall [d.1951] New Zealand copyright expired (50 years after death) but Samoan copyright still in force (75 years after death). Tattersall photographs common and used freely in New Zealand. Business bought by Messrs H & J Retzlaff of Apia, Samoa c.1949, but negatives destroyed in 1966 hurricane. |
| File number: |
6 |
| Format: | Archive |