IMAGE
Cusack Smith album 6
- Date
- Between 1890 and 1899
- By
- Davis, John, -1893
- Reference
- PA1-o-547
- Description
Collection of photographs taken during the time Sir Thomas Berry Cusack Smith was British Consul in Samoa. Scenes of Samoan life, including groups of Samoans; one group of men and women holding traditional weapons; three women preparing kava; views of the British Consulate building in Apia; scenic views of coconut palms, taro plantations, and waterfalls; traditional fale (Samoan houses), and canoes; one view of a cemetery, and one scene of sailors on board the USS Mohican. Some of the photographs were taken by J. Davis, but in most cases the photographer is unidentified (possibly Cusack Smith himself).
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Dark grey album, with black spine and corners, 25 x 31 cm
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929 :Photographs of Samoa
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs, Dark grey album, with black spine and corners, 25 x 31 cm
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Fortification, Samoa
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
From: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929 :Photographs of Samoa
Reference: PA1-o-547-19
Description: Group of men armed with rifles at a fortification in Samoa, takenm, probably in the 1890s, by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.6 x 20.9 cm mounted on album page
Three Samoan women preparing to make kava
Date: ca 1890
From: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929 :Photographs of Samoa
Reference: PA1-o-547-24
Description: Three Samoan women preparing to make kava. They are seated on mats in a row in front of a screen of plants and tapa cloth. The kava bowl is placed in front of the central woman. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1890 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print
Armed group, Samoa
Date: Between 1885 and 1898
From: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929 :Photographs of Samoa
Reference: PA1-o-547-16
Description: Group of men and women armed with traditional weapons, Samoa, taken, probably in the 1890s, by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.6 x 20.6 cm mounted on album page