A New year's Greeting from Samoa
Artist
JOHN DAVIS
Date1893
Location depictedSamoa
MediumAlbumen print, cardboard
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineGift of The Vermont Historical Society, from the Carrie Ormsbee Collection
Object number1990.17.3 LA
DescriptionTwelve images on card, printed text with vine, leaf decoration. Ferns inlaid in negative. Greeting printed beneath photographs.A: Samoan warrior Ale
B: Taupo Matauta, daughter of Chief Seumanutafa
C: unknown young woman
D: unknown man holding a club
E: unknown young woman
F: Chief Uo
G: Tomb: probably of Malietoa Moli (d.1860) in Malie
H: unknown young woman
I: unknown man
J: unknown woman in taupo ceremonial dress
K: Taupo Matautu reclining on shaggy mat
L: unknown young woman.
On bottom printed: "A New Year's Greeting from Samoa./ J. Davis, Photo., Samoa."
On back written in ink: "To Mr. & Mrs. Ormsbee with a Merry Christmas and happy New Year is the wish of your friend L. J. Willis." (Laulii Willis)
On View
Not on viewCollections
c. 1812
400-650 A.D.
c. 1760, maybe
ca. 1920