item details
NameSamoan woman
ProductionThomas Andrew; photographer; 1890-1910; Sāmoa
Classificationphotographic prints, portraits, black-and-white prints
Dimensions14, 20
Registration NumberO.001207
Credit lineGift of Alison Beckett and Robert McPherson, 1996
Overview
An unknown woman sits cross-legged on siapo (decorated tapa cloth) holding a flower stalk in her left hand. She has a dark strapless garment with a titi, a cobra-style necklace in two strands and her hair is up (flower visible in her hair). Woman is looking slightly to the (viewers') left.