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Objects and photographs in a 2015 museum account
Bennett’s 2015 account places the Museum of Samoa in Malifa, Apia. It says prints of photographs from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries line the walls of the main entrance staircase, while two lower-floor rooms held other displays.
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Photographic prints on the staircase
Bennett’s 2015 field account says prints of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs line the walls of the main entrance staircase.[1]
Coconut-husk sennit and canoe models
Bennett describes one lower-floor room through its objects and activities: an exhibit on Samoan sennit, which she explains is coconut-husk fibre, alongside tattooing implements, fale construction, canoe models and traditional games.[1]
A room for flora, fauna and pottery
She places Samoan plant and animal displays, together with prehistoric pottery, in the second room downstairs.[1]
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A few clear answers before you explore.
What did Bennett note on the walls of the museum’s entrance staircase?
Prints of photographs from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.[1]
What material and other displays did Bennett group in one lower-floor room?
An exhibit on sennit (coconut-husk fibre), with tattooing implements, fale construction, canoe models and traditional games.[1]
What did Bennett place in the other room downstairs?
Displays of Samoan plants and animals, alongside prehistoric pottery.[1]
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