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Smithson has pencilled '28/8' next to '72. Another bell'.

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Landscape format. Tongan Group.

Scope and Contents An album containing mounted prints, most measuring approximately 200 x 140 mm, depicting the landscape and people of New Zealand, Fiji and Samoa. All the prints except for ten are signed and captioned by Burton Brothers. The ten unsigned photographs, mainly of Maori warriors, are the work of American Photo Company, Auckland (Y3089/53-54) and Pulman Studio, Auckland (Y3089D/58-65). The album breaks down into geographical locations thus:65 prints of New Zealand10 prints of...

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Smithson has pencilled '28/7' next to '36. View on schooner - smell of copra'.

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Smithson has pencilled '28/6' next to '57.'.

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Smithson has pencilled '23/7' next to the following notes: '58. Waist band of leaves dyed - oil again'.

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Smithson has pencilled '23/8' next to '59.'.

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Smithson has pencilled '23/10' next to '60.'.

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Smithson has pencilled '23/11' next to '61.'.

Scope and Contents Smithson has pencilled '25/10' next to the following notes: '7. Near view of canoe - how made - Katermerang [sic] also seen at Colombo tho' larger. I had to leave the mail steamer as that only called at Pago-Pago and then went on to New Zealand. On landing we soon found a native who could talk a little English and he volunteered to show us the chief's house. Samoans are supposed to be the finest of the Polynesian races, they are big of stature, well made and of a prepossessing...

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Smithson has pencilled '29/5' next to '68. Papalaloa or jumping rick'.

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Smithson has pencilled '22/10' next to '79. Road scene'.

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Smithson has pencilled '29/9' next to '52. Path thro' bananas'.

Scope and Contents An album containing mounted photographs of various sizes, generally uncaptioned. Inside the front cover of the album is written: 'Taken by Wilfred Powell, Deputy Commissioner for the Western Pacific of Samoa,' but the photographs were probably also taken by members of his family - and by the commercial photographer J. Davis of Apia, who died in 1903. Davis’s shop appears in Y309B/50. Little information is given with regard to locations and events, and many of the captions composed must be...

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Smithson has pencilled '27/12' next to the following notes: '47. Samoan oven - first fire and heat stones, when these are hot spread out food to be cooked place on with leaves over. No Banquet without pigs. Many pigs kept as pets. Led about with a string'.

Scope and Contents Smithson has pencilled '28/5' next to the following notes: '54. The national drink is 'Kava' which is made from the root of a sort of pepper tree - its making and drinking are attended with a deal of ceremony for the Samoans are a very ceremonious people. The root is first pounded with stones and then mixed with water in the Kava bowl. This is formed out of a piece of solid wood. The duty of kava making always devolves on the young girls of the household who must hold themselves in...

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Smithson has pencilled '24/9' next to '75. Road at Mulinuu Vaea Mountain'.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of glass lantern slides, 82 x 82 mm, mostly of Samoa, taken by John Snowden Smithson. Smithson visited Samoa on holiday and presumably the remaining slides (5 of them unidentified, 13 of Yosemite National Park and 10 of Ceylon), together with a map, date from the same period. None of the slides are captioned, but the first 91 slides have numbers on their left hand corners, running from 20/10 to 30/9, with a few gaps, and presumably represent the sequence in which the...

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Smithson has pencilled '21/7' next to the following notes: '8. Chief's house, description of house - some round - some oval, posts round centre post, venetian or samoan blinds - made from leaves of cocoanut palm - pebbles on floor - mats - notice hills behind - stature of natives, dress'.

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Smithson has pencilled '21/8 9' between the typewritten notes labelled '8.' and '10.'

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Smithson has pencilled '22/8' next to '81.'.

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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'.

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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 - '.

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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'.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of glass lantern slides, 82 x 82 mm, mostly of Samoa, taken by John Snowden Smithson. Smithson visited Samoa on holiday and presumably the remaining slides (5 of them unidentified, 13 of Yosemite National Park and 10 of Ceylon), together with a map, date from the same period. None of the slides are captioned, but the first 91 slides have numbers on their left hand corners, running from 20/10 to 30/9, with a few gaps, and presumably represent the sequence in which the...