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Mau parade along Beach Road in Apia, Samoa, on Black Saturday
- Date
- 28 December 1929
- By
- Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951
- Reference
- 1/2-019638-F
- Description
Mau parade moving west along Beach Road on `Black Saturday', 28 December, 1929, Apia, Samoa. Photograph taken by Alfred James Tattersall.
Black Saturday (28 December 1929) happened in Samoa when a clash between police and a peaceful Mau demonstration killed 12 people and wounded 30 others. Information from 'New Zealand's Heritage, The making of a nation, part 80, page 2236.
The people in the foreground are approximately at the spot where police tried to arrest Mata`utia. (Information from National Library exhibition notes of Va'aomanu: an exhibition celebrating the History and Culture of Samoa)
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Orientation: Horizontal image
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