Cacao - Samoa

Date: Early 1900s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

Reference: PA1-f-126

Description: Album of newspaper & magazine cuttings, maps, and black & white photographs, with the title "Outer New Zealand". Includes information on various islands, including Auckland Islands, Kermadecs, Cook Islands, Niue, Rarotonga, Western Samoa, Makogai Island Leper Station, and areas of the Antarctic. On page 6, there are 2 photographs of Cook Islanders wearing traditional clothing, one group from Mangaia, and one group from Aitutaki. There are sections giving detailed information and illustrations showing various agricultural activities, including the growing of bananas, copra, breadfruit, rubber, taro, kava plants, cacao, coffee and cotton; and on page 21 are 3 images showing the construction of a fale (Samoan dwelling). One section (pages 24-25) has information and images of Robert Louis Stevenson, his wife, his house "Vailima" and his tomb. There are several pages of coloured illustrations of different breeds of Samoan fish (p 46-50). Page 27 shows a group of Faipule (members of the Samoan Native Council) who visited Wellington in May 1925.

Date: [Between 1905 and 1936]

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

By: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951; Crown Studios (Auckland, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-445

Description: Photographs of Samoa taken between 1905 and 1936, some taken by Samoan photographer Alfred James Tattersall, many by unidentified photographers. One photograph is not related to the rest, showing two young women flautists from Highcliff School, Dunedin, winners of a Dunedin competition in 1918 (P 90) The earliest ones, taken in 1905, show the damage caused by a volcanic eruption, and show lava pouring into the sea. The rest of the images are related to Donald Alexander John Rutherford, headmaster at Ifi Ifi School (Leififi School) from 1919, becoming Superintendent of Schools from 1923 to 1936. There are many scenes which include his family, with his wife and four children (including Alexander Mathieson Rutherford). Many of the scenes show school activities, including the ceremonies surrounding the opening of the new school at Avele; the schools at Malifa, at Ifi Ifi, Poutasi, Aleipata and other districts; sports teams; school parades, including boy scouts linked with the schools; and groups of teachers, both European and Samoan. General views of Samoa include the construction of a fale, the interior of a fale; fishing; cocoa beans and their harvesting and drying; copra industry, with Solomon Island workers; and sowing cotton seed. Several images show the celebrations for George V's birthday; school breakup feasts; and the farewell flotilla of canoes when the Rutherford family left Samoa in 1936. Social activities of the Europeans in Samoa include tennis, large groups of bowlers, and garden parties at Vailima, the Governor's residence. Inscriptions: Album page - "The Rutherford Family, November 30th 1936 ... Sae-Tupe" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with cover bound in tapa cloth, light brown cloth spine; 25 x 30 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1930

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2424-F

Description: Two small panoramic negatives. Taken by Robert Percy Moore in Samoa (A) Four men are raking and spreading cocoa [cacao] beans in large trays for drying. They are on a level above a large bulding of which only the roof and a tall roofed vent are visible. The buildings appears to be open-sided. "Cocoa planting began around 1900 and by 1912 had become second only to copra production. Labour for copra and cocoa production was provided by indentured labour, from Melanesia from the 1880s, and later from China." (Caption from National Library exhibition `Va'aomanu' - celebrating the history and culture of Samoa.) (B) Looking up a drive to a single-storeyed house in an unidentified location in Samoa. Steps up to a porch connected with a long verandah with an enclosed section on the right. Large stones line the drive. Lawn with palm trees and the base of a flagpole seen on the left with two men and a woman seated on the grass. Large group of palms behind the house. A high-roofed fale with open sides is seen amongst trees in the middle distance on the far right. A boy wearing a hat is seen walking towards the camera centre right. One of a set originally labelled P76 to P82. This one P82. They all appeared to be part of a sequence of R P Moore panoramic negatives which fit between Pan-2075 and Pan-2083. Identified as Moore's from others taken in in similar locations or with marginal notes in his script. Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negatives 9.4 x 31.0 (A); 9.4 x 31.0 cm (B)

Date: [Circa 1912]

From: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929 :Photographs of Samoa

By: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: PA1-o-549

Description: Album of Samoan scenes, sent to Sir Berry Cusack Smith and his wife, with Christmas greetings and felicitations from Apa and Kalasini. Most of the photographs are signed by Alfred Tattersall, photographer. Images include interior and exterior views of a Samoan fale; cocoa tree; copra drying on a large mat; a number of men tapping rubber trees; a large group of young boys standing by and in a river with fale on the other side; a young Samoan woman seated on a mat, wearing a lei, with hibiscus flowers in her hair, holding a fan; a scene with two waterfalls close together; and men with a canoe. Inscriptions: Album page - "I lana Afioga ma le Faletua. Sir Berry & Lady Cusack Smith. Ta manuia tele ile Kilisimasi paapea foi ma le Tausaga fou. Ou te fiafia tele ma Faafetai atu i cards sa Manatua mai ai pea matou ile Tausaga ua tea "Nei". Ua ma alolofa tele ma Faamanuia atu O Apa & Kalasini. Apia Samoa 19/11/12". Sir Thomas Berry Cusack Smith was the British consul in Samoa from 1890 to 1898. This album was sent after they had left Samoa. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown album, entitled "Nature prints", 22.5 x 27.0 cm

Date: Ca 1900

From: Ward, Charles Kay :Album of views of Samoa

By: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: PA1-q-736-023

Description: Cacao tree, Samoa, photographed between 1900 and 1920 by Alfred James Tattersall. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Toned gelatin silver print 24.2 x 19.2 cm mounted on album page

Date: Ca 1900

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

Reference: PAColl-3062-2-08

Description: Cacao tree, Samoa, photographed between 1900 and 1920 by Alfred John Tattersall. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 24 x 18.9 cm