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Untitled (Lady sitting on steps of Ori's house), p.21
Osbourne, Lloyd, 1888, Photograph
Untitled (Lady sitting on steps of Ori's house), p.21
Untitled (Lady sitting on steps of Ori's house), p.21
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19310
Title
p.21, Untitled (Lady sitting on stone steps of Ori's house)
Description
A lady holding a child sits on the stone steps at the front of Ori a Ori's (sub chief of the village of Tautira) house in Tahiti. Another child in a hat is leaning on the edge of the steps. Two more children can vaguely be seen on the wooden veranda that runs round the house.
The image is from the photograph album entitled 'The Cruise of the Casco' of Robert Louis Stevenson's travels around Hawaii and French Polynesia in 1888.
Artist / maker
Osbourne, Lloyd
Date
1888
Size
10.6 x 12.6 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Writers' Museum
This image was taken in November-December 1888. Princess Moe had organised for the Stevenson party to move into the house of Ori, the sub chief of the village and deacon of the Protestant Church in Tautira after it became apparent that they were to have an extended stay on the Island. Ori, and his family moved to another house during this time.
Tahiti is one of the Windward Islands of French Polynesia, in the southern Pacific Ocean. The capital is Papeete which is situated on the northwest coast.
Born in Edinburgh on 13th November 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, playwright and travel writer. Although he was plagued by ill health all his life, he was extraordinarily well-travelled, visiting Europe, America and the South Seas. He married American born Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne in 1880 and is best-known for works like Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (both 1886).
Robert Louis Stevenson spent the latter years of his life both travelling and resident in the Pacific. The family chartered the 'Casco' in San Francisco and spent several weeks travelling in French Polynesia, including an extended stay in Tahiti where Stevenson recovered from a bout of illness. After this the Stevenson group continued to Honolulu, Hawaii, where they landed in January 1889. In the summer of 1889 Stevenson embarked on a six month voyage through the Gilbert Islands to Samoa aboard the 'Equator'. It was here that Stevenson bought an estate he named Vailima. After another voyage, aboard the trading steamer the 'Janet Nicoll', Stevenson returned to Vailima. He died here on the 3rd December 1894 of a brain haemorrhage at the age of 44, leaving what many consider his best work, Weir of Hermiston (1896) unfinished.
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