Two Samoan men and a Samoan woman standing outside a wooden house.

A landscape photograph of two Samoan men standing either side a Samoan woman with a wooden house in the background. The woman is wearing a wrap skirt and holding a palm woven fan in her right hand. The man on the left is topless, holding a circular long staff in both hands. The man on the right is also topless and holds a fly whisk, called a 'fue' in both hands. Both men are wearing head dresses and have different kinds of wraps around their waists.

The photograph is captioned 'Samoans. South Pacific.'

Object Details

ID: ALB0167.92
Type: Photographic print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: North, Frederick
Date made: Early 1880s
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Measurements: Overall: 136 mm x 202 mm
Parts: The Cruise of HMS Alert in Patagonian and Polynesian Waters, 1879-1882 (Photograph album)