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Collection Citation:
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. Collection, Acc. 1992.0023, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Moody was probably attached to Colonel A. B. Steinberger, who was sent as special commissioner on behalf of the U S State Department to appraise the political situation in Samoa for President Grant, 1873.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 130,592
Local Note:
watercolor drawings mounted on cardboard mounts
Genre/Form:
Drawings
Citation:
Manuscript 130,592, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Colonel A. B. Steinberger, President Grant's Commissioner To Samoa, Interviewing Mauga, Headman, Holding Telescope; Both Sitting Inside Woven Mat, Pole, and Thatch House; Two Men, Woman and Infant Sitting on Woven Mats Nearby Drawing
View of Apia Harbor from American Consulate Showing Outrigger Canoe, Paddle, American Flag on Pole Near Picket Fence, and Male Group; Boats and Sailing Ships in Harbors; Village Nearby Painting