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Independent State of Samoa

Images

  • Three players from the Manu Samoa football team in blue and white; advertising AIDS prevention in Samoa. Colour lithograph.
  • A Samoan woman with leaves in her hair.
  • A couple look out on to a sea sunset with two further images depicting two men in a forest setting with a machete and a sick man being held by the wrist; a warning about AIDS in the form of a film poster by the South Pacific Commission. Colour lithograph.
  • A barechested, bearded Samoan man, with his arms crossed.

Catalogue

    • Pictures

    A young Samoan woman, standing behind the branch of a tree.

    | Date: [approximately 1900] | Reference: 540983i
    Part of: Hawaiian and Samoan portraits.
    • Books

    Nafanua : saving the Samoan rain forest / Paul Alan Cox ; illustrated by Michael Rothman.

    Cox, Paul Alan. | Date: [1997], ©1997
    • Books

    Medizin in Samoa seit Beginn der Kolonialisierung / Hartmut Gerding.

    Gerding, Hartmut. | Date: 1986
    • Pictures

    A Samoan woman reclining on a bed of vegetation, dangling her foot in the water, holding a large leaf of a plant as a fan. Photograph by Burton Brothers, 1899.

    | Date: 1899 | Reference: 540961i
    Part of: Hawaiian and Samoan portraits.
    • Pictures

    Two Samoan women, seated in a domestic setting, wearing grass skirts, one with seashell necklece.

    | Date: [approximately 1900] | Reference: 540988i
    Part of: Hawaiian and Samoan portraits.

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