IMAGE
Pago Pago, Tutuila, American Samoa
- Date
- Jul 1884
- Reference
- PA1-f-178-13-1
- Description
Woman (named Esseka?) in canoe, Pago Pago, Tutuila, American Samoa, July 1884. Photograph taken by Alfred Burton during his cruise on the ship "Wairarapa".
Caption in album written by ? reads: " 'Esseka' Native woman of Pago Pago in Tutuila Island Samoa or Navigator Group. S Pacific"
Caption in album written by ? reads: "x At this point [x is marked in pencil on right of print] on the shore a 'Tabu' began as the tribes had been fighting a short time before [unreadable] there - ie in July 1884. R.F"
Listing in "Burton Brothers/Muir & Moodie Catalogue, Volume One, Normal Series (Whole plate negatives)" printed by the Photographic Information Section, National Museum of New Zealand, 1991, reads: BB 2657 Pango-Pango Harbour village centre distant girl canoe right Samoa (Neg 7466)
Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 2657 Pango Pango Harbour - Samoa Burton Brothers Dunedin
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Albumen print 14.8 x 20.4 cm, on album page 40 x 27.8 cm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Parliamentary Library: Photograph albums / Photograph album of Samoa, Fiji, and Tonga
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Albumen print 14.8 x 20.4 cm, on album page 40 x 27.8 cm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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