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Images From The Samoa Islands by Dr. Augustin Kramer, 1901

Plate I	Catching atule in the Reef Lagoon at Tau (Manu'a).
Plate II	A Path through the Primeval Forest.
Plate 1	A young Samoan woman.
Plate 2	Two Samoan sisters of Savai'i.
Plate 3	A Samoan with a savage expression.
Plate 4	The daughter of Seumanutafa at Apia with a necklace and a round fan.
Plate 5	A Samoan warrior with a beheading knife.
Plate 6	Melanesian women with wavy and spirally curled hair.
Plate 7	Three girls of Tapittlea, Gilbert Islands.
Plate 8	A Samoan daughter of a chief of Falefa.
Plate 9	Two Fijian women.
Plate 10	A Fijian woman with Polynesian features.
Plate 11	A Samoan woman, half recumbent
Plate 12	At the shore of Vaiusu; taumualua.
Plate 13	A Samoan woman in profile (front view in Vol. 1, p. 14).
Plate 14	A Samoan in profile.
Plate 15	A Melanesian in profile (Solomons).
Plate 16	A Samoan woman of Falelatai.
Plate 17	A Samoan chief seated.
Plate 18	A young Samoan woman with X-arms.
Plate 19	Figure of a Samoan woman from the front.
Plate 20	Figure of a Samoan woman from behind.
Plate 21	Figure of a Samoan woman lying down, seen sideways from behind.
Plate 22	Figure of a Samoan woman sitting, from the front and side.
Plate 23	Samoan school children in front of a long house.
Plate 24	Circumcision in Fiji.
Plate 25	The tattooing implements.
Plate 26	A carved holder for tattooing instruments, probably from Tonga.
Plate 27	The tattooing of a Samoan from behind (upper).
Plate 28	The tattooing of a Samoan from behind (lower).
Plate 29	The tattooing of a Samoan woman from the side.
Plate 30	A modern signature on a bark cloth.
Plate 31	Girls preparing kava; four-footed kava bowl.
Plate 32	A travel party (malaga) in a large house (guest house, faletele), in the background the family dwelling house (the sleeping house, faleto'a).
Plate 33	A gathering on the malae. Disposition of the baskets of food and of bark cloth
Plate 34	A village community (Manono?) on the occasion of an homage of food (ta'alolo).
Plate 35	A family fly whisk of coconut fibres (fue'afa), once the property of Malietoa Talavou.
Plate 36	The residence of Malietoa Laupepa in Mulinu'u at Apia.
Plate 37	Malietoa lying in state.
Plate 38	The tomb of Malietoa Laupepa.
Plate 39	A modern tomb of a chief.
Plate 40	Three Samoan girls, the middle one with the skin disease tane (Pityriasis), the two on either side with decorative scars (moti).
Plate 41	A Samoan long house and a cook house.
Plate 42	Cooking and house implements.
Plate 43	In the cook house, breadfruit being roasted on hot rocks.
Plate 44	A cook house with an oven steaming in it.
Plate 45	A hand wash bowl (tanoa fa'a'au) (Fischer photo).
Plate 46	Taro, banana, sugar cane and coconut palm plantations.
Plate 47	A breadfruit tree in a three to four year old coconut palm plantation.
Plate 48	Samoans picking coconuts. A three-crowned palm.
Plate 49	Coconut blossoms and coconuts.
Plate 50	Breadfruits.
Plate 51	Bananas.
Plate 52	Taro.
Plate 53	Pawpaw/papaya fruit.
Plate 54	Filoa (Lethrinus reticulatus Cuv. Val.), a fish esteemed for eating.
Plate 55	A roasted fat pig on a litter.
Plate 56	At the outer reef, a drain channel.
Plate 57	Fishing gear.
Plate 58	Canoes with fish spears and nets, returning from catching anae.
Plate 59	A house with an alagamea net.
Plate 60	The large fish net for catching grey mullets (seuanae) spread out to dry.
Plate 61	Apparatus for net making.
Plate 62	Net fishing in the lagoon.
Plate 63	Fish being enclosed by women with hand nets on the beach.
Plate 64	Breaking up after forming the enclosure.
Plate 65	The end of an atule catch on Tau (start: Plate 1).
Plate 66	The spread-out alagamea net.
Plate 67	The alagamea net spread out for catching fish.
Plate 68	A bonito boat va'aalo departing to catch fish.
Plate 69	The trevalli (malauli).
Plate 70	Stone blades and a stone nail.
Plate 71	A stone blade from the side, of Atua, ground on four sides.
Plate 72	A Samoan wooden idol.
Plate 73	A turtle-shaped wooden bowl, probably from Fiji.
Plate 74	Samoan war clubs in Stuttgart.
Plate 75	A Fijian oar-shaped club with eye ornaments (Plunkett, Dublin photo).
Plate 76	Carving pattern of the Sale'imoa club.
Plate 77	Samoan clubs in Berlin (von Luschan photo).
Plate 78	Samoan clubs in Berlin (von Luschan photo).
Plate 79	Fijian clubs in Stuttgart (labelled "Samoan").
Plate 80	An oar-shaped Samoan club (fa'alautaliga) with fa'asigano ornaments (property of Senior Lieutenant Hollweg).
Plate 81	A curved Tongan lapalapa club (Schmeltz photo).
Plate 82	Samoan clubs of the talavalu lapalapa form (in the author's possession).
Plate 83	Ornamentation on Samoan clubs in Stuttgart.
Plate 84	Samoan wooden combs in Stuttgart.
Plate 85	A Samoan wooden fan in Stuttgart (Fischer photo).
Plate 86	A model of a house.
Plate 87	A long house under construction.
Plate 88	Dwelling houses of a simple kind in the form of a long house.
Plate 89	A model of a large house.
Plate 90	A large house under construction, with scaffolding.
Plate 91	The centre section, the side "itu", of a large house.
Plate 92	The round part of a house in the course of transport.
Plate 93	Looking into a large house.
Plate 94	The tying on of the cornice.
Plate 95	Sleeping mats and food baskets stowed away in a large house.
Plate 96	A row of dwelling houses at Tad on Manu'a with yards and fences (lagola'ai) to protect them from the pigs.
Plate 97	A large war catamaran (Fiji?).
Plate 98	A small and a large outrigger canoe.
Plate 99	Canoe models in Stuttgart.
Plate 100	Catamaran model, Stuttgart.
Plate 101	Catamaran model, Stuttgart.
Plate 102	Fijian half double canoe under sail.
Plate 103	The catamaran Fa'a'inaelo of Olosega on Manua, now fallen to ruin.
Plate 104	Carved plank and the top mast of the catamaran Fa'a'inaelo in Stuttgart (Fischer photo).
Plate 105	Carved plank and the top mast of the catamaran Fa'a'inaelo in Stuttgart (Fischer photo).
Plate 106	The "two bows" canoe taumualua.
Plate 107	Models of two bows canoes with ovula ornamentation, Stuttgart.
Plate 108	Toy canoes, Stuttgart (Samoa and Fiji).
Plate 109	A chief's son (manaia) with a comb in his hair, a flower behind his ear and an ornament of pualulu blossoms in imitation of a whale tooth necklace.
Plate 110	A Samoan woman with slit-shaped eyes wearing the head ornament (tuiga).
Plate 111	A wedding party on Roturna with gita style of hair dressing and a Fijian kava bowl.
Plate 112	A Fijian with a wig and a malo girdle.
Plate 113	Fans and combs.
Plate 114	Girls in modern attire.
Plate 115	Ornamentation and plaited work.
Plate 116	Fans (ifitea) and titi.
Plate 117	Mata'afa with his fine mats.
Plate 118	Scraping the bark of the paper mulberry tree.
Plate 119	Painting the bark cloth.
Plate 120	Implements used in the making of bark cloth.
Plate 121	A wooden matrix (upeti Wau).
Plate 122	Bark cloth designs of Samoa.
Plate 123	Bark cloth designs of Samoa.
Plate 124	Bark cloth designs, two of Samoa, one of Wallis.
Plate 125	Red bark cloths with eye ornament and white tapa border.
Plate 126	Illustration of dances.
Plate 127	Illustration of dances.
Plate 128	Illustration of dances.
Plate 129	Illustration of dances.
Plate 130	Illustration of dances.
Plate 131	Illustration of dances.
Plate 132	Illustration of dances.
Plate 133	The lafogatupe game.
Plate 134	Pigeons (lupe).
Plate 135	A Fijian in war dress.
Plate 136	Fortifications.
Plate 137	Fortifications.
Plate 138	Mount Maugaafi on Savai'i.
Plate 139	A ficus tree
Plate 140	Views of reefs at Apia.
Plate 141	Views of reefs at Apia.
Plate 142	Views of reefs at Apia.
Plate 143	Views of reefs at Apia.
Plate 144	Views of reefs at Apia.
Plate 145	Views of reefs at Apia.
Plate 146	Views of reefs at Apia.
Plate 147	The tooth-billed pigeon.
Plate 148	Three Samoan girls (title picture).