Surf Board Rider

Surf Board Rider

Hawaii
Photograph
19th Century
Traditions
Indigenous People
Sport

The image shows a Hawaiian surfer on the beach, in traditional clothing known as loin cloth. This clearly shows that much of the Hawaiian culture is still present and significant in some natives regardless of the influence of missionaries. Missionaries in this era found surfing extremely distasteful and ungodly, due to minimal clothing and other factors. This image shows that regardless of missionary opinion, some Hawaiian natives would continue their cultures and not adapt their way of living for the sake of missionaries. So whilst missionaries can be seen as very successful in Hawaii, this image shows that they were not as influential as they would have liked to have been, and perhaps that some Hawaiians opposed their influence.

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Daily Mail Reporter, 28 February 2011

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361094/Hawaii-1890-Is-picture-surfer-ride-waves-19th-century.html

1890

Sotira Eren

Private dealer/Auctioneer

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Visual - photograph

19th century Hawai'i