Mau parade along Beach Road in Apia, Samoa, on Black Saturday

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Title

Mau parade along Beach Road in Apia, Samoa, on Black Saturday

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Collection

TAPUHI

Description

Mau parade moving west along Beach Road on `Black Saturday', 28 December, 1929, Apia, Samoa. Photograph taken by Alfred James Tattersall. Black Saturday (28 December 1929) happened in Samoa when a clash between police and a peaceful Mau demonstration killed 12 people and wounded 30 others. Information from 'New Zealand's Heritage, The making of a nation, part 80, page 2236. The people in the foreground are approximately at the spot where police tried to arrest Mata`utia. (Information from N...

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Image

Date created

28 December 1929

Creator

Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23143678

Locations

Beach Road

Related subjects

National Organisation of Western Samoa / National liberation movements / Samoa / History / Autonomy and independence movements / Beach Road

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