Portrait of a young Samoan woman

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Portrait of a young Samoan woman

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

The South Seas, as they were often known before the twentieth century, have long held a place in the imagination — as an exotic, carefree paradise in which the restrictions of Western society no longer apply. Such a construction has only been encouraged and reinforced by the makers of visual images. These include photographers like Alfred Burton of Dunedin’s Burton Brothers studio in 1884, as well as residents such as Thomas Andrew, a New Zealander who settled in Samoa’s main centre, Apia, as...

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Image

Date created

1890-1910

Creator

Thomas Andrew

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/297316

Related subjects

Women / Indigenous peoples / Leaves / Sāmoan / albumen / silver / photographic paper / albumen prints / black-and-white prints / portraits / black-and-white photography / Sāmoa

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