item details
NameFive Samoans and Four Europeans
ProductionMalcolm Ross; writer; circa 1899; Apia
Classificationphotographs, gelatin silver prints, black-and-white prints, vintage prints, group portraits
Materialssilver, photographic gelatin, developing-out paper
Materials Summaryphotograph, gelatin silver print
Techniquesblack-and-white photography, photography
DimensionsImage: 201mm (width), 152mm (height)
Registration NumberO.032985
Credit linePurchased 2009
Overview
Malcolm Ross was a New Zealand journalist, mountaineer and writer during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Journalism took Malcolm to Samoa in 1899 where he reported on the Civil Wars. Years later at the beginning of the First World War, Malcolm returned to Samoa in 1914 with the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces when New Zealand occupied Samoa. This photograph is part of a collection of photographs from Malcolm's archive relating to Samoa as it includes an image of Robert Louis Stevenson and a photograph of a group of Samoan men during the Civil Wars of 1899.