Mau (Organization), Mau Movement
The Mau movement. Name of nationalist movement in Western Samoa which opposed the inept paternalism of the New Zealand administration of the islands, in the early 1920s. The Mau was intially lead by Olaf Nelson, who was half Samoan and half Swedish.
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Date:
ca 1890s and ca 1929
By:
Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951; McKnight, P (Mrs), active 1960
Ref:
PAColl-0691
Description:
Photographs of: the lying in state of Tamesese III; Tamesese III with his council outside the Office of the Mau; Robert Louis Stevenson and a Samoan man; a...
Date:
1928-1933
From:
Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area
By:
Nelson, Olaf Frederick, 1883-1944
Ref:
Micro-MS-Coll-08-0712
Description:
Includes correspondence with H E Holland, Chairman of the New Zealand Labour Party, Nelson's wife Rosabel, and Mau leaders during Nelson's banishment from Sa...
Date:
1927-1933
From:
Bell family: Collection
Ref:
MS-Papers-5210-068
Description:
Correspondence with Richardson, much of which relates to events in Samoa. Richardson was New Zealand administrator in Samoa 1923-1928, during which time the...
Date:
1928
From:
Various artists :Collection of photocopies, newspaper clippings and bromides of cartoons by Bromhead (A-314-1), Brockie (A-314-2) and J. C. Hill (A-314-3).
Ref:
A-314-3-001
Description:
Shows New Zealand Prime Minister Gordon Coates holding a ladder against a wall with a brush in one hand. He has put his foot in a bucket of glue (titled mal...
Date:
1917-1929
From:
Hunt, Alice Suisana, 1925- :Photographs relating to Samoa
Ref:
PAColl-6193-1
Description:
Arthur Aris King's family in Samoa, their relatives and friends. There are photographs of Apia, and of Mau protests taken in 1929.
Quantity: 49 b&w origina...
Date:
[ca 1930]
From:
McKnight, P:Photographs of Robert Louis Stevenson and his valet, his gravestone, of Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III with Mau leaders and his lying in state
By:
Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951
Ref:
1/2-045047-F
Description:
Office of the Mau and women's Mau, circa 1930. Photograph taken by Alfred James Tattersall.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Date:
1929
From:
McKnight, P:Photographs of Robert Louis Stevenson and his valet, his gravestone, of Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III with Mau leaders and his lying in state
By:
Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951
Ref:
PAColl-0691-1
Description:
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III lying in state, Samoa, 1929. Amongst those around the coffin are, from left to right: Faumuina Fiame Mulinu'u I (seated in foregro...
Date:
1928
From:
McKnight, P:Photographs of Robert Louis Stevenson and his valet, his gravestone, of Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III with Mau leaders and his lying in state
By:
Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951
Ref:
PAColl-0691-2
Description:
Shows group of men, including Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III (dressed in white), gathered around the office of the Mau ca 1928 with the slogan Samoa Mo Samoa ove...
Date:
[ca 1920s-1930s]
By:
Jaspers, Josephine, active 2009
Ref:
PAColl-9537
Description:
Photographs of Apia, Samoa, showing Mau prisoners and guards, and Roman Catholic Church, taken by an unidentified photographer. Taken circa 1920s-1930s.
Sou...
Date:
1947
From:
Tourist and Publicity
By:
Andrews, Ernest Stanhope, 1908-1992
Ref:
1/4-018820-F
Description:
Members of the Mau, in 1947, in the grounds of the United Nations Mission's headquarters at Apia, Samoa. Two hold a placard that reads: "Good government is n...
Date:
Jul 1947
From:
Tourist and Publicity
By:
Andrews, Ernest Stanhope, 1908-1992
Ref:
1/4-018832-F
Description:
Unidentified group of Samoan men and women in favour of Western Samoan self government, during a demonstration at a reception to the United Nations Mission i...
Date:
Jul 1947
From:
Tourist and Publicity
By:
Andrews, Ernest Stanhope, 1908-1992
Ref:
1/4-018813-F
Description:
Samoan women in favour of self government for Western Samoa, during a demonstration at a reception to the United Nations Mission in July 1947. The banner in...
Date:
1947
From:
Tourist and Publicity
By:
Andrews, Ernest Stanhope, 1908-1992
Ref:
1/4-018812-F
Description:
Samoan group in the grounds of the United Nations Mission headquarters, Apia, Samoa, 1947. Photograph taken for the National Publicity Studios by E S Andrews...
Date:
1930
From:
Various artists :Collection of newspaper clippings, photocopies and bromides of cartoons by various cartoonists
By:
Blomfield, William, 1866-1938; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)
Ref:
A-312-1-141
Description:
The Administrator of New Zealand's mandate over Western Samoa, Stephen Shepherd Allen, is demanding that a Samoan changes his lavalava (or native dress) whic...
Date:
Sep 1945
From:
Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Ref:
WA-01114-G
Description:
Photograph taken by Whites Aviation.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Glass negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches
Date:
31 Jan, 10 Feb 1930
By:
New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives
Ref:
MS-Papers-11860
Description:
Two notices issued by the Governor Stephen Shepherd Allen on 31 Jan 1930 and 10 Feb 1930, regarding court decisions relating to the Mau uprising in Samoa. B...
Date:
[Between 1926 and 1930]
From:
Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951 :Photographs of Samoa
Ref:
PAColl-3799-13
Description:
A group of Mau supporters, photographed outside the premises of Morris Hedstrom Ltd between 1926 and 1930 by Alfred John Tattersall.
Inscriptions: Verso - t...
Date:
1930
From:
Gleeson, Francis Joseph 1908-1993 :Album of photographs of the Mau uprising, Western Samoa, 1930
Ref:
PA1-o-795-14-5
Description:
Hon John Cobbe and Colonel Stephen Allen, Administrator of Western Samoa, hold conference with chiefs at Vaimoso. Photographed by an unknown photographer in...
Date:
1930
From:
Gleeson, Francis Joseph 1908-1993 :Album of photographs of the Mau uprising, Western Samoa, 1930
Ref:
PA1-o-795-26-1
Description:
Armed sailors from the Dunedin on parade in front of a church. They are about to take to the forest in search of supporters of the Samoan Mau movement again...
Date:
1930
From:
Gleeson, Francis Joseph 1908-1993 :Album of photographs of the Mau uprising, Western Samoa, 1930
Ref:
PA1-o-795-17-2
Description:
Mau prisoners disembarking from a boat, Apia, Samoa photographed in 1930 by an unknown photographer. HMS Dunedin is in the background.
Inscriptions: Album ...
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