A family on their plantation on village outskirts, Upolu, Samoa
- AU PMB PHOTO 156-021-B10
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- 1977
Part of Robert Norton photographs of Falefa village, Upolu, Samoa
Norton, Robert
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A family on their plantation on village outskirts, Upolu, Samoa
Part of Robert Norton photographs of Falefa village, Upolu, Samoa
Norton, Robert
A competitor at the district Methodist Sunday School marching competition. Gataivai, Savaii
Part of Photographs from a teacher’s missionary work in Samoa
Arbon Family
A Saleapaga tulafale [orator matai] beside his house, Upolu, Samoa
Part of Robert Norton photographs of Falefa village, Upolu, Samoa
Norton, Robert
A Paradise of the Gods. Writings and Drawings of Handley Bathurst Sterndale.
Part of A Paradise of the Gods. Writings and Drawings of Handley Bathurst Sterndale.
Sterndale, Handley Bathurst
A Paradise of the Gods. Writings and Drawings of Handley Bathurst Sterndale.
‘A Paradise of the Gods. Writings and Drawings of Handley Bathurst Sterndale.’ is an unpublished digital edition edited by J.J. Overell. In 1870, Handley Bathurst Sterndale worked as a surveyor on the island of Upolu, Samoa, for the German trading company Goddefroy & Sohn. In this capacity, he made an expedition across Upolu, making notes and sketches about the journey as he went. In 1871, on Motu Kotawa on the islet of Pukapuka atoll in the Cook Islands, he worked these notes into the manuscript ‘Upolu; or, A Paradise of the Gods’, and worked his sketches into finished drawings. Some accounts are not his first hand observations and others are demonstrably wrong. Sterndale sought to have the manuscript published, but was unsuccessful in finding a publisher before his death in 1878. After his death, it was listed in a catalogue among the publications of Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington of London, but the manuscript never made it to print.
The original notebooks have since been lost, but the surviving manuscript and drawings have been passed down to Sterndale’s descendants. This edition brings together edited excerpts from Sterndale’s original manuscript and is illustrated with his original drawings, which were digitised by photographer Rod Howe. It also includes a detailed introduction by editor J.J. Overell, and contextual chapters on the geology of Upolu, a chronology of Sterndale’s life and detailed appendices, including a complete transcript of the original manuscript.
Subjects covered by Sterndale include beachcombers, Samoan cultural beliefs and practices, civil conflict, diet, agriculture, wildlife, disease - amongst others. In addition to Upolu, Sterndale writes about Levuka in Fiji and Easter Island or Rapa Nui.
Sterndale, Handley Bathurst
Brother Fred Henry, a teacher at Leone Boys School, Tutuila, American Samoa, spent 25 years in Samoa.
This history, a typescript of 127 pages, was apparently intended for the use of schools in Samoa. A statement on page 127 reads: '... as this outline presents the first trial ever made to collect the known historical events and to put them together in a chronological order, I am well aware that it contains errors and perhaps many of them. But if so, such misstatements are the consequence of erroneous information I received. No misstatement has been made wilfully ...'.
Henry, Fred
Part of Handley Bathurst Sterndale Drawings of Pacific Islands
Sterndale, Handley Bathurst
Part of Handley Bathurst Sterndale Drawings of Pacific Islands
Sterndale, Handley Bathurst