National Organisation of Western Samoa

Date: ca 1890s and ca 1929

By: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951; McKnight, P (Mrs), active 1960

Reference: 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; and Stevenson's gravestone in Samoa. Photographer was A J Tattersall. Arrangement: Prints also at PAColl-0691-1 and 2. Original negative of the image of Stevenson's grave in PAColl-5444. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s) approximately.

Date: 1928-1933

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

By: Nelson, Olaf Frederick, 1883-1944

Reference: 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 Samoa Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also in "Complete annotated catalogue" (Canberra : PMB, 1991) which has an index. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB

Date: ca1923-ca1927

From: Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PA1-o-446

Description: Photographs of Samoa taken during the 1920s by unidentified photographers. Images include scenes of Samoan ceremonies, including the presentation of Fine Mats at Mulinu'u; an investiture; Anzac Day, placing wreaths on the graves of soldiers who died in samoa; scenes of the Faipule (this image with the inscription "Faipule. Samoan Parliament"); ceremonial welcoming canoes; Sir Charles Fergusson, and General George Spafford Richardson; and scenes at various schools, including group portraits of pupils and staff, and sporting teams. Another sequence shows the damage which occurred during a hurricane in 1925, including the grounding of the ship Lady Roberts, and destruction of plantations and buildings. Two photographs have an additional historical note: On page 72: "Visit to native village. `Historical photo. This indicates the rising of the organisation of the "Mau". General Richardson visits the biggest villages. Note the poor attendance and the disturbed countenance of the Chief'. General Richardson and party listening to the orator's speech" and, on page 77 "Visit of General Richardson to the village of Lufi Lufi (Note the poor attendance. General Richardson's disappointment)". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with cover bound in tapa cloth, dark green cloth spine; 26 x 31 cm

Date: 1927-1933

From: Bell family: Collection

Reference: 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 Mau independence movement grew rapidly. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts

Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]

By: Jaspers, Josephine, active 2009

Reference: 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. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints Provenance: Donated by Josephine Jaspers, Wellington, 2009

Date: 1917-1929

From: Hunt, Alice Suisana, 1925- :Photographs relating to Samoa

Reference: 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 original photographic print(s).

Date: 1998

Reference: Eph-C-NATIONAL-LIBRARY-1998-01

Description: Poster shows a photograph of Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III (in white) and the Mau Committee outside the office of the Mau at Vaimosa, ca 1928. The verso of the poster has an essay in both English and Samoan, by Tupuola S Malifa, January 1998. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 420 x 295 mm.

Date: 1843-1938

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-3076

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: [1930-1940]

From: Hunt, Alice Suisana, 1925- : Papers relating to Arthur Aris King and James Baxter Fleck

Reference: MS-Papers-6704-4

Description: Clippings, mostly pictorial on aspects of Samoan life; also includes photocopies of photographs, many relating to the Mau rebellion; booklet, `Florence Nightingale' (Little Library of Biography, London, Religious Tract Society); `Pacific Islands monthly (17 Oct 1934); loose pages from `Three wonderful nations' relating to Samoa and a little on Fiji Other Titles - Pacific Islands monthly (17 Oct 1934) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs of Mau unrest.

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

Reference: 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: 1909

From: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: 1/2-020688-F

Description: Namulau'ulu Lavaki Mamoe (standing 3rd from left with orator's staff) and other chiefs, aboard the German warship which took them to exile in Saipan (Mariana islands), in 1909. Photograph taken by Alfred John Tattersall. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [Between 1926 and 1930]

From: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: 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 - top left - Group of the Mau Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 190 x 240 mm

Date: 1947

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Andrews, Ernest Stanhope, 1908-1992

Reference: 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. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

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).

Reference: 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-administration) which he is using to stick a poster up on the wall. The poster relates to Samoan deportations. There is another man with a hat on looking over the wall at him. The cartoon refers to political trouble with the Mau in Samoa and to illegal immigrants (both human and insect) and consequent deportations from New Zealand Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy, A4 size Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

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

Reference: 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 foreground), Tamasese's son (above Faumuina, with folded arms), Tuimaleai'ifano (with arm in a sling), Mrs Ala Tamasese (seated, in profile), Alfred Hall Skelton and Alfred G Smyth. Photographer was Alfred Tattersall. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1947

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Andrews, Ernest Stanhope, 1908-1992

Reference: 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 no substitute for self-government - Earl Baldwin ex Prime Minister of England". Photograph taken for the National Publicity Studios, by E S Andrews, during a visit of members of the United Nations Mission. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: [1929]

From: Hunt, Alice Suisana, 1925- :Photographs relating to Samoa

Reference: PAColl-6193-1-02

Description: View of a Mau Movement demonstration in the streets of Apia, Samoa. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1929 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 8.5 x 6 cm

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).

Date: [1929]

From: Hunt, Alice Suisana, 1925- :Photographs relating to Samoa

Reference: PAColl-6193-1-01

Description: View of a Mau Movement demonstration in the streets of Apia, Samoa. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1929 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 14.4 x 9 cm

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

Reference: 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 over the door. Photograph taken by Alfred James Tattersall. "Samoa Mo Samoa" means "Samoa for the Samoans". Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).