- AU PMB MS 184-02
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- 1860-1883
Roman Catholic Church - Samoa
Roman Catholic Church - Samoa
Letters, ethnographic material, articles
These papers comprise part of the records of the Vicariate of Samoa which are designated Oceania Navigatores (ON) in the Marist Archives. The documents comprise:
Roman Catholic Church - Samoa
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 is an unpublished digital edition edited by J.J. Overell.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
Correspondence with New Zealand Administration, Samoa, pp.132-258
Part of Correspondence with New Zealand Administration, Samoa
Correspondence with New Zealand Administration, Samoa, cont. 1930-1946
Correspondence with New Zealand Administration, Samoa, pp.1-131
Part of Correspondence with New Zealand Administration, Samoa
Correspondence with New Zealand Administration, Samoa 1915-1929
Correspondence with New Zealand Administration, Samoa
These documents originally formed part of the archives of the Samoan District Committee and later Samoan District Council of the London Missionary Society, and were formerly held at Malua, Western Samoa. The Samoan District Committee was replaced by the Council in 1928.
Correspondence of the Samoan District of the London Missionary Society with the New Zealand Administration, Samoa.
London Missionary Society - Samoan District
Correspondence with German Administration, Samoa, pp.120-221
Correspondence with German Administration, Samoa, cont. 1913-1915
Correspondence with German Administration, Samoa, pp.1-119
Correspondence with German Administration, Samoa 1905-1912
Correspondence with German Administration, Samoa
These documents originally formed part of the archives of the Samoan District Committee and later Samoan District Council of the London Missionary Society and were formerly held at Malua, Western Samoa. The Samoan District Committee was replaced by the Council in 1928
Correspondence of the Samoan District of the LMS with the German Administration of Samoa.
London Missionary Society - Samoan District