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Salamasina's historical significance was that she was the means of drawing together all the great aristocratic bloodlines and links to supernatural power in a period of political transformation, to create a basis of legitimacy for the new power-brokers of Samoa, the orator group Tumua of A‘ana and Atua. For the next four centuries or so, they ...
The MV Queen Salamasina was an inter-island ferry which was operated in Samoa by the Samoa Shipping Corporation from 1977 to 1999. The Queen Salamasina was constructed for the Australian government at the Dillingham Shipyard in Perth, Australia and completed in 1977. [1]
He is the first descendant of Queen Salamasina to have brought together the royal lines of both her children - Queen Fofoaivaoese and Tapumanaia. [ 2 ] Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Titimaea saw the restoration of the Salamasina lineage to prominence after a period of rule from the Manono-based Leiʻataua/Tamafaiga polity and Sa Malietoa, the last ...
In 1977 the Australian government provided a ferry, the MV Queen Salamasina. [6] The company was unprofitable for its first twenty years, and gained a reputation for inefficiency. In 1985 it bought a "luxury boat", only to sell it back to the original owners just two years later for less than it had paid for it. [7]
Malietoa Vai'inupo - the first Malietoa to ascend to the kingship of Samoa since before Queen Salamasina's lineage took over. He was also the last to hold the kingship of Samoa. Malietoa Natuitasina - half brother (same father, Malietoa Fitisemanu I) to Malietoa Vaiinupo; Malietoa Moli; Malietoa Talavou Tonumaipe'a; Malietoa Laupepa; Malietoa ...
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He heads one of Samoa's two royal families, the Sā Tupua (descendants of Queen Salamasina), through the family's maximal lineage title, Tupua Tamasese. He also holds the ancient pāpā title of Tui Ātua (sovereign of Atua). [4] Tui Ātua served as the third prime minister of Samoa from 1976 to 1982 and again later in 1982. [5]
Queen Salamasina, holder of four paramount chief titles, ascended the throne in the 16th century through the shrewd maneuvering of the powerful female chieftains around her. Samoa continues to value the leadership roles of women and third gender people.