Oceania (continent)
Found in 4945 Collections and/or Records:
Samoan girl, 1885 - 1890
58 x 96 mm. A studio portrait of a Samoan girl with plaited hair.
Samoan girl, 1889 - 1900
Coloured lantern slide studio portrait of a seated Samoan girl. Print number 6.
Samoan House, 1885 - 1890
139 x 101 mm. A view showing a characteristic Samoan house, with thatched roof, and walls partially hung with woven palm mats. A wooden canoe stands in front of the house.
[Samoan house], 1899
145 x 95 mm. A view showing a small wooden house with a corrugated iron roof.
[Samoan houses under palm trees], 1903
Smithson has pencilled '22/8' next to '81.'.
Samoan male, 1885 - 1890
57 x 99 mm. A studio portrait of a Samoan male, wearing a boar’s teeth necklace and an ornate headdress.
[Samoan man], 1899
82 x 57 mm. An amateur snapshot showing a Samoan man in a loin cloth standing in a garden.
[Samoan or Tongan dance], 1899
157 x 110 mm. A photograph taken at the same occasion as Y309C/13, and showing a row of women about to perform a dance, with Europeans visible in the background.
Samoan ornaments, 1885 - 1890
58 x 99 mm. A photograph showing carved Samoan hair ornaments, arranged in a pattern.
Samoan siva or dance, Apia, 1889 - 1900
A view showing three rows of Samoan men posed in a dance position In ‘Pearls of the Pacific’, where this photograph appears as an illustration, entitled ‘War drill’. Print number 17.
[Samoan soldiers], 1903
Smithson has pencilled '24/5' next to the following notes: '26. Costume of soldiers. Various styles of dressing the hair, some women cut it short like men, very difficult to distinguish - flower behind ear -or'.
Samoan troops under European command, 1899
195 x 130 mm. A view showing two rows of men armed with rifles, in front of whom stand two Europeans in command (one of whom wears an English sailor’s shirt). This contingent is probably part of the force of followers of Malietoa Tanu who were brought to Apia from Savai’I and Tutuila to be trained in the war against Mata’afa.
Samoan Village, near Apia, 1884 - 1885
196 x 142 mm. A group portrait of five Samoan girls, standing in front of a hut, and wearing patterned skirts.
Samoan Village, Pango-Pango, 1884 - 1885
194 x 141 mm. A view showing two men posing for the camera among palm trees and grass huts. Pango-Pango, with its fine natural harbour, is situated at the southern end of the island of Tutuila, American Samoa. See also Y309993A/46-53.
[Samoan villagers], 1899
156 x 110 mm. A view showing a group of Samoans, probably copra workers, in a fenced-off open space in a village.
Samoan War Canoe, 1899 - 1900
A view showing the large wooden craft. This boat was the last war canoe in existence, and was presented to the German Emperor. Print number 19.
Samoan warrior, 1885 - 1890
57 x 99 mm. A studio portrait of a Samoan male seated and holding a serrated club.
Samoan warrior, 1885 - 1890
58 x 99 mm. A studio portrait of a kneeling Samoan man holding a club similar to that seen in Y309B/76.
Samoan woman, 1885 - 1890
58 x 98 mm. A studio portrait of a Samoan woman, carrying a (fishing?) net over her shoulder.
Samoan women, near Apia, 1884 - 1885
140 x 192 mm. A portrait of five Samoan women and girls of varying ages standing in front of a house.
Samoan women, near Apia, 1884 - 1885
202 x 140 mm. A very similar view to Y3089D/83 with the same figures standing in the same positions, but taken from a greater distance and showing the whole of the house behind them.
[Samoan women, showing piled-up hair style], 1903
Smithson has pencilled '22/5' next to the following notes: '27. others dress it high on special occasions usually black but great idea of beauty is to get it a bronze colour; this colour obtained by lime - '.
Samoans and river scene, 1885 - 1890
100 x 58 mm. A view showing a shallow river, with Samoans standing in the river, and two manning a small outrigger canoe.
[Samoans bathing in a rock pool], 1903
Smithson has pencilled '27/2' next to the following notes: '67. Samoans are a cleanly people, always bathing once and generally twice a day in fresh water either in one of the numerous rivers or in the fresh water pools by the sea shore - use a great quantity of soap'.
Samoans during wartime, 1899 - 1900
A view showing armed warriors posed outside low sandbag fortifications. Print number 30.