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(The Samoa
Islands
- Draft monograph with special reference to German-Samoa.)
However, it
does
include one photograph of surf riding in Samoa on page 401:
No. 43 Das
Wellenengleitspiel
(Fa'ase'e).
The German
roughly
translates as "wave play", the term in parentheses presumably
the Samoa
name.
The image shows
a large number of participants, some of whom have short body
boards.
wikipedia.org:
Augustin
Kraemer
or Krämer (1865–1941) was a German naturalist and
ethnographer.
Augustin
Kraemer
was a ships doctor who worked in the Polynesia in 1893–95
and 1897–99.
He wrote
the Palau
sections of Georg Thilenius five-volume ethnographic
documentation of the
Hamburg Südsee Expedition, which sailed through Micronesia
to record
the island peoples and their way of life during the early
1900s (Palau,
Ergebnissse der Südsee-Expedition, herausgegeben von Dr G.
Thilenius
1926, Hamburg).
His second voyage is described in Hawaii, Ostmikronesien
und Samoa. Meine zweite Südseereise (1897–1899) zum Studium
der Atolle
und ihrer Bewohner published in Stuttgart by Strecker &
Schröder,
1906.
abebooks.com:
The second
volume
begins with an overview of European voyages to Samoa and the
scientific
work undertaken as part of those voyages.
This is followed by a 80-page
chapter on Samoan anthropology and sociology.
The largest part however
is given to a study of all aspects of Samoan life, including
medicine,
gardening and cooking, fishing, the trades of the men (incl.
carving and
house building), ornaments and clothing (incl. 15 pages on
tapa cloth),
games, dance, music and warfare.
This followed by two chapters on fauna
and flora and a 6-page bibliography.
"Fa'ase'e" in German text.
Page 401
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Games
Common to east
and
west. Of seven games tabulated by Linton (19, p. 453), the
surfboard and
dart throwing are given as common to both areas. Though dart
throwing is
given merely as present in Samoa and important in some of the
eastern localities,
the association of the game in Samoa with historical events
and oft quoted
sayings used by orators shows that it was equally important in
the west.
The use of the throwing cord with forms of dart throwing has
been remarked.