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Tu'imaleali'ifano Loa

Photography Historical posted on Feb 13, 2018
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This loa, a monument or a tomb of a chief, is the Tu'imaleali'ifano tomb. Tu'imaleali'ifano holds one of the four Tama-a-Paramount chiefly titles in Samoa. The loa was constructed by Germany when it was a colonial power and Western Samoa was one of its colonies. But the material and style used was not the traditional material and style but rather a German type design. It is said that the German government was trying to impose its colonial power over the Samoan chiefs.. The Tu'imaleali'ifano loa is located on the Mulinu'u Peninsula west of Apia and its harbor. When Junior and his wife Angela (my taxi driver) took me there I assumed this was a memorial to fallen German soldiers, and it took me a while to sort things out. This picture was taken on 31 Decmber 2017, Sig...

Comments (7)


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blinkings

12:12AM | Wed, 14 February 2018

Beautiful.

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starship64

2:09AM | Wed, 14 February 2018

It's very interesting how the culture was affected by German rule, even in something like this.

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Buffalo1

2:42AM | Wed, 14 February 2018

A left over of colonial days that is surprising to find.

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LivingPixels

5:31AM | Wed, 14 February 2018

Super shot nice one!!!

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ontar1

6:58AM | Wed, 14 February 2018

Interesting!

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T.Rex

9:43AM | Wed, 14 February 2018

Interesting and thanks for the info. I first took it to be a modern copy of a Mayan temple, so you can imagine my surprise when I read your text. Keep up the good work. :-)

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Faemike55

4:44PM | Wed, 14 February 2018

this is different and cool - interesting history


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