Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
The Samoan Islands : the outline of a monograph, giving special consideration to German Samoa
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
E. Schweizerbarsche (E. Nagele)
Place
Date
1902
Physical Description
2 volumes in 9 parts : genealogical tables ; 36 cm.
Language
English
German
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Related Object Notes
ACQ-2015-58 Papers relating to the New Zealand Reparation Estates and Western Samoa Trust Estates Corporation
Subject Category
Public Access Text
Associated Notes
Subject Notes
TofΓ Maunu Sauni (c. 1820s-1900s) held the Samoan orator chief title of Sauni for Tufulele, Upolu, Samoa, by the 1890s. He was the chief Samoan advisor to German ethnologist Dr Augustin Kraemer in Kraemer's study of Samoa, The Samoan Islands (Vols 1-2, 1901 & 1903). The German medical doctor turned ethnologist regarded Sauni as his 'best teacher' and 'unshakable friend.' According to Kraemer, Sauni was 'generally looked upon by other Samoans as one of the wisest men among them.'(1)--The Devil's Handwriting: Pre-Coloniality and the German State in Quingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa (pp. 310-311). George Steinmetz.
Augustin Friedrich Kraemer or KrΣmer (27 August 1865 - 11 November 1941) was a German naturalist and ethnographer. Augustin Kraemer was a Navy surgeon who worked in the Polynesia in 1893-95 and 1897-99.
Collection Type
Reserve Collection - Outsize
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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