Nan Tok and Nei Takauti - strong friends of the party

Category

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Item no

20205

Title

p. 9, Nan Tok and Nei Takauti - two strong friends of the party when in Butaritari.

Description

A couple are seated in house beside a table with an oil lamp on it. Nan Tok is smoking a cheroot, while his wife, Nei Takauti has a clay pipe in her mouth and is wearing a European chemise and a scarf round her neck. They both have flowers in their hair.

The image is from the photograph album entitled 'The Cruise of the Equator' of Robert Louis Stevenson's travels around the Gilbert Islands and Samoa in 1889.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1889

Size

18.1 x 23.8 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Writers' Museum

The photographer was either Joe Strong or Lloyd Osbourne.

Butaritari is an atoll in the Pacific Ocean and is part of the island nation of Kiribati. Kiribati is made up of 32 atolls and includes the main island chain, the Gilbert Islands (of which Butaritari is part).

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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