Prime ministers - Samoa

Date: [ca 1880s-1970s]

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

By: Pulman (Firm)

Reference: Series-7053

Description: Photographs fall into three general groups: those relating to Jock McEwen's professional career with Island and Maori affairs; those that relate to his interest in Māori art and culture; those that probably relate in some way to his own family and background. The first group includes recordes of the diplomatic and ceremonial side of events in Samoa, The Cook Islands, and Tokelau, in the 1970s. There are groups of photographs of Wellington Māori clubs rehearsing for Waitangi Day celebrations, and of events at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference Wellington, 1965. The second group consists of photographs of mahi toi (Māori art), taonga (artifacts), and whare (buildings). Many of these date from the 1880s and 90s and some have belonged to S Percy Smith, one of the albums having his name on the end paper. In this group there are also photographs of Māori, and groups of Māori, many in traditional dress photographed in association with wharenui (meeting houses). Some of the people have been identified. There are also what may be personal and family photographs. The largest collection of these have been made by a missionary family working in the Melanesian Mission in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu (New Hebrides) between 1918 and 1928. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-087032 to 087122; 1/2-181288 to 181293 Quantity: 370 b&w original photographic print(s). 14 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 13 colour original photographic print(s). 6 folder(s). 2 album(s). 1 Other printed ephemera item(s). Transfers: Bewick engravings transferred to Drawings & Prints 16.11.1999. At Library reference E-586.. Processing information: Arranged by format in 1999 into Photographic archive, combined with ATL-Group-00693 and title edited in August 2023.

Date: 1921-1999

From: Aikman, Colin Campbell (Dr), 1919-2002 : Papers

Reference: Series-3527

Description: Papers relating to Aikman's role as an advisor on constitutional development in Western Samoa, 1955-1968 and his ongoing involvement in constitutional and legal developments in the country Quantity: 12 box(es).