title: TURNER(1884) SAMOAN WOMAN IN COSTUME OF THE PAST

artist: unknown

date: 1884

source: Image extracted from page 014 of ''Samoa a hundred years ago and long before, together with notes on the cults and customs of twenty-three other islands in the Pacific ... With a preface by E. B. Tylor'', by TURNER, George. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied [link from Flickr]. ''Note: The colours, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.'' Mechanical Curator image

credit: This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection, a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library.

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title: Portrait of Pacific Island woman in front of dense vegetation (AM 80336 2)

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date: Unknown date

medium: Silver gelatin dry plate

current location: Institution:Auckland War Memorial Museum

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description: This is a half length portrait of a Pacific Island, possibly samoan, woman. She is wearing Pacific Island patterned puletasi, or dress. She is wearing a light coloured hibiscus flower behind her right ear.

title: Portrait of a woman and serviceman (AM 88249 1)

artist:

date: circa 1940

medium: Silver gelatin dry plate

current location: Institution:Auckland War Memorial Museum

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description: Full length portrait. samoan woman with a Naval serviceman standing on a shoreline.

title: Portrait of a woman and serviceman (AM 88249 2)

artist:

date: circa 1940

medium: Silver gelatin dry plate

current location: Institution:Auckland War Memorial Museum

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description: Full length portrait. samoan woman with a Naval serviceman standing on a shoreline.

title: Group portrait of Samoan children (AM 86649 1)

artist:

date: Unknown date

medium: Silver gelatin dry plate

current location: Institution:Auckland War Memorial Museum

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description: Group portrait of a mature, possibly elderly woman, with a group of children. Two of the boys' are holding coconuts.

title: Samoans offloading crates from the back of a vehicle (AM 86648 2)

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date: Unknown date

medium: Silver gelatin dry plate

current location: Institution:Auckland War Memorial Museum

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description: View of four samoan men standing on a truck off loading crates of bananas. "samoan Bananas Maui Pomare Brand" is written on the crates. "76", and-or "264" are written on the crates. Two samoan woman stand next to the truck. A sign hung from a coconut palm tree has illegible writing and 'No 26'.

title: Samoans offloading crates from the back of a vehicle (AM 86648 1)

artist:

date: Unknown date

medium: Silver gelatin dry plate

current location: Institution:Auckland War Memorial Museum

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description: View of four samoan men standing on a truck off loading crates of bananas. "samoan Bananas Maui Pomare Brand" is written on the crates. "76", and-or "264" are written on the crates. Two samoan woman stand next to the truck. A sign hung from a coconut palm tree has illegible writing and 'No 26'.

title: Portrait of a woman and two children (AM 88177 2)

artist:

date: Unknown date

medium: Silver gelatin dry plate

current location: Institution:Auckland War Memorial Museum

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description: Portrait of a samoan woman sitting on concrete ledge with a young boy and a young girl sitting on either side of her. A fale, and people, are in the background.

title: Portrait of a woman and two children (AM 88177 1)

artist:

date: Unknown date

medium: Silver gelatin dry plate

current location: Institution:Auckland War Memorial Museum

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description: Portrait of a samoan woman sitting on concrete ledge with a young boy and a young girl sitting on either side of her. A fale, and people, are in the background.