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The Samoan Islands : the outline of a monograph, giving special consideration to German Samoa

documentary heritage
  • Place
    Stuttgart, Germany
  • Other Id

    GN671.S3 KRA (Library of Congress Call Number)

    43648 (Cat ID)

    88479 (DBTextworks system ID)

    37380 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

    Publications

Images and documents

    Catalogue

    • Object Type

      book

    • Name/Title
      The Samoan Islands : the outline of a monograph, giving special consideration to German Samoa
    • Primary Maker

      Tofa Sauni (Co-author/author)

      Augustin Kramer (Author)

    • Contributor/Publisher
      E. Schweizerbarsche (E. Nagele)
    • Place
      Stuttgart, Germany
    • Date
      1902
    • Physical Description

      2 volumes in 9 parts : genealogical tables ; 36 cm.

    • Language
      English
      German
    • Level of Current Record
      Bib record
    • Member Object

      9 items in this collection. View all items.

    • Related Object Notes
      ACQ-2015-58 Papers relating to the New Zealand Reparation Estates and Western Samoa Trust Estates Corporation
    • Subject Category

      Samoans--Folklore

      Samoans--Material culture

      Natural history--Samoan Islands

      Samoa--Social life and customs

      Samoa--History

    • Public Access Text

      [Keywords: Ethnology--Samoan Islands Legends--Samoan Islands; Samoa--Constitution]

      Includes indexes. "Published with the assistance of the Colonial Department of the Foreign Office"-title page. A typescript that seems to be the draft text and layout for the publication of an English edition Kramer acknowledges Tofa Maunu Sauni's for his generous sharing of traditional knowledge in Part One of the book, where Kramer describes his travels and work across the Pacific.

    • Associated Notes
      https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_AzU8AAAAMAAJ/mode/2up German edition available online via the Internet Archive.
    • 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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