Several Samoan men stand over two others, brandishing a hooked metal implement, as if a weapon. Later hand painting accentuates the bright colors of theirs skirts, headgear, and the green foliage in the background. This is a copy of a photograph, originally from the photo album entitled 'The Cruise of the Equator' of Robert Louis Stevenson's travels around the Gilbert Islands and Samoa in 1889, in the collection of The Writers' Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland.
The images in the Collection 'Selections from the Cornell Anthropology Collections: Lantern Slides' are believed to be in the public domain by virtue of the creation date of the underlying slides, and are presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright]. Glass Lantern Slides from the Cornell Anthropology Collections were digitized by Cornell University Library in 2016 for inclusion in this image collection. Please contact Frederic W. Gleach, Curator of the Anthropology Collections for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.
