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Untitled (Lloyd, Paerai and RLS), p.25
Unknown, 1888, Photograph
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Untitled (Lloyd, Paerai and RLS), p.25
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Item no
19326
Title
p.25, Untitled (Lloyd, Paerai and RLS in village street)
Description
Lloyd Osbourne and Robert Louis Stevenson pose for a photograph with Paerai in Tautira on Tahiti. Lloyd is wearing a pareu (wrap a round skirt). In the background huts with grass roofs stand behind rows of washing. Tall palm trees surround the area.
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
Unknown
Date
1888
Size
10.5 x 12.7 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Writers' Museum
This image was taken in November-December 1888.
Lloyd Osbourne was Robert Louis Stevenson's step-son. Paerai was the adopted son of Ori a Ori's (sub chief of the village of Tautira) and his wife, Haapie. Adoption was widely practised in the islands, with children being brought up by other members of the family or by friends, rather than by their natural parents. Princess Moe had organised for the Stevenson party to move into Ori's house 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). From the late 1880s, Stevenson stayed in the South Pacific with his family on his own estate in Vailima in Samoa. 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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