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Chief Mataafa
Andrew, Thomas, 1889, Photograph
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Chief Mataafa
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Item no
19723
Title
p. 39b, Chief Mataafa
Description
Mataafa stands in front of a hut and rugs. He is holding a walking stick and wearing beads over a bare chest and a wrap-a-round skirt. Two men are kneeling on either side of him and a woman (perhaps his wife) is sitting in the middle. She is wearing a dress with a grass skirt, beads round her neck and is holding a parasol.
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Andrew, Thomas
Date
1889
Size
14.4 x 20 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Writers' Museum
Mataafa Iosefo was a rival claimant as King of Samoa during the Civil War.
The Samoan Islands are located in the South Pacific and lie halfway between Hawaii and Australia. The capital Apia, is situated on Upolu one of the largest of the 10 islands.
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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Robert Louis Stevenson: Pacific Travels
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