A New year's Greeting from Samoa
Artist:
JOHN DAVIS
Date: 1893
Location depicted:Samoa
Medium: Albumen print, cardboard
Classification: Visual Works
Credit Line: Gift of The Vermont Historical Society, from the Carrie Ormsbee Collection
Object number: 1990.17.3 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)
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)
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