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Mauatua, también Maimiti o Isabella Christian, también conocida como Mainmast, [1] (Tahití, c. 1764-Islas Pitcairn, 19 de septiembre de 1841) fue una tejedora de tapa tahitiana que se estableció en la isla Pitcairn con los amotinados del Bounty.
Mauatua, also Maimiti or Isabella Christian, also known as Mainmast, [1] (c. 1764 – 19 September 1841) was a Tahitian tapa maker, who settled on Pitcairn Island with the Bounty mutineers. She married both Fletcher Christian and Ned Young, and had children with both men.
14 de nov. de 2023 · MAUATUA (Maimiti, “Mainmast,” Isabella) Christian’s consort. We do not know when Mauatua was born, but she claimed to remember Cook’s first arrival in Tahiti (1769), so she must have been at least twenty-three or twenty-four when the Bounty arrived in 1788.
26 de may. de 2017 · Mauatua, for example, was one of the founding mothers of the Pitcairn community that exists today. She was the oldest woman brought from Tahiti, and she married Fletcher Christian, the leader of the mutineers.
The descendants of the Bounty mutineers include the modern-day Pitcairn Islanders as well as a little less than half of the population of Norfolk Island. Their common ancestors were the nine surviving mutineers from the mutiny on HMS Bounty which occurred in the south Pacific Ocean in 1789.
Mauatua and Teraura were the oldest and youngest women to arrive on Pitcairn in 1790. They outlived all the other original settlers. They worked together making fine white tapa cloth.
2 de may. de 2022 · Māori culture can – and should – be experienced in all forms across the country: from the historical to the geothermal and, in some cases literally carved into the storied landscape: here is No. 62 of our 101 Reasons To Stop Dreaming About New Zealand And Go.
