Photograph album 2

Album of B&W copy photographs of Samoan, Rotuman, Polynesian, and Tongan people, various sizes, some marked with ?photographer and date. All with added unknown numerical references.

  1. Group photograph, men seated and standing, meke dan wearing feather head dresses of varying design. Marked "6320. The Meke Dane. Burton Bros. PROTECTED AUG, 21., 1895". "AP 2218. Meke dancers. Rotuma."

  2. Seated woman bare to waist. Wearing 3 pronged head dress, 2 necklaces and grass skirt. Holding woven fan, other hand showing wrist band of beads. Marked "T Andrew Apia Samoa 1904 311." Annotated "AP2220 Girl wearing head dress Samoa." 3 copies

  3. Portrait head and shoulders of Samoan man, hair short back and sides, mostach, no additions. Annotated "Tamasese". Marked "AP2225 Tamasese, Samoan chief"

  4. Rear view waist to knee showing complex rows of tattoos. Annotated "AP2227. Back view of male tattooing. Polynesia. Ramsay Smith collection."

  5. Native woman in front of woven mat. showing ear rings, stone necklace, flowers in right hand and patterned cloth skirt. Marked "278. Andrew Apia 1905. AP2228 woman with necklace Samoa"

  6. Group photograph same as AA 6/6-1 no 40. "Seated native people, one standing against background of building wall. 4 others and a woman in the center seated. Annotated "138", marked AP 2233, Samoan chief and family"

  7. Group photographs 6 native men carrying dead pig on shoulder poles. Marked "Y2. ROAST PIG". Annotated "3423".

  8. Group photographs same as 7.

  9. Head and shoulders native woman, wearing necklace and flowers over left shoulder and breast. Marked "T Andrew Samoa 1904 302". Annotated "18, 3424"

  10. 2 native women standing, each with a wooden sword. Both bare breasted wearing flowers in hair, necklaces and skirts. Marked "Samoan Belle's. AT Apia 95". Annotated "3425"

  11. Head and shoulders native woman, wearing necklace. Hair cut short with .. over left shoulder. Marked "803 Samoan girl". Annotated C. Rudd 257 Bourke Str. Melbourne".

  12. Standing native woman wearing feather decorated skirt, necklace and flower in hair. Marked "Andrew 103".

  13. Standing native woman with bent elbows leaning on hay bail. Marked "Samoan loose elbow joint 112 Andrew 1904"

  14. 6 seated native women on floor matting. all looking to the left, each with different hair dress. Marked "Samoa"

  15. Native woman seated on banana tree stump. Wearing waist covering, hair messy. Marked "790". Annotated C. Rudd 257 Bourke Str. Melbourne".

  16. Native woman seated on fern stump, in front of plaited mat house. Marked "814 - "Tiko Fair" - Samoa". Annotated C. Rudd 257 Bourke Str. Melbourne".

  17. 3 seated native people. 2 women with necklaces, a man with necklace and plaited decorated fan. Annotated "AP 2244. 6. Tonga. Brother and sisters, Kerry, Sydney"

  18. Group photograph, seated village men. near thatched roof building. Marked "Game of Lafo Vavau 82 Andrew". Annotated "AP2231. Lafo game. Tonga group. Vavau".

  19. Seated and standing group of native women. Many bare breasted, all wearing long skirt. Standing group with hands extended to the right, seated group hands grasped and reaching forward. Annotated "Vavau, Tonga"

  20. 2 seated native women on river bank, in an "amourous" pose. both bare breasted and wearing bead necklaces.

  21. Seated bare breasted native woman facing right with flower in her hair. Marked 25".

  22. 4 seated native women, one bare breasted all with necklaces, around a "legged" bowl. Annotated "Tonga Kava making"

  23. Group photograph seated native men. Many trees in background. Marked "Faikava Vavau 81" Annotated Vavau Tonga Peparations for kave drinking. AP 2217".

  24. Head and shoulders of native woman. 3 string bead necklace and waring white dress with a flower each side of breast line. Marked "Andrew Apia 1906" Annotated "10"

  25. Head and shoulders of native woman. 3 string bead necklace and flower in her hair. Marked "Apia girl registered Andres 101" Annotated "24"

  26. Head and shoulders of ?European woman, short hair combed up. Marked "Andrew Apia 1003. 847". Annotated "5"

  27. Portrait of native woman with dog tooth necklace, hair combed back. Wearing ?loosely plaited top. Marked "297". Annotated "9".

  28. Group photograph seated women in front of bamboo wall. Marked "6389. Native women making kava. Burton Bros Dunedin. Protected Oct. 1 99". Annotated AP2216 Kava drinking (Making) Vavau, Tonga Group.

  29. Group photograph seated men in semicircle in garden setting. Marked "Fai Kava Vavau 81". Annotated "AP 2217 Kava Fai karva 81" drinking, Vavau Tonga Group

CreatorThomas Andrew
ControlAA6/1/2
Series AA6/1