1950s Aggies Hotel | Apia | Extends To You The Typical Samoan Welcome
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- Date: 1950s
- Artist: EG
- Size (in): 25 x 20
- Size (cm): 63.5 x 50.8
- Condition: B
- Linen backed: No
This poster depicts an image of a Samoan lady dressed in traditional clothing and wearing an ornamental headdress offering a drink from a bowl to visitors. The drink is a ceremonial 'ava / kava root drink served from a tanoa / laulau bowl in a tauau / ipu tau cava coconut cup.
Aggie Grey (1897-1988) was a popular and well-known hotelier who founded her first hotel in 1933 in Apia, the capital of Samoa.
