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Alexander Ariʻipaea Salmon

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coconut plantation on Tahiti. In 1877 Queen Pōmare IV died, and Alexander's sister became regent. John Brander also died that year, and Dutrou-Bornier was assassinated. Alexander set off for Easter Island to manage the sheep station in around October 1878 with twenty Tahitian workers and an unknown
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Mr Salmon, who is guide, philosopher, and friend to these people, unites in his person (and being a giant in stature, he can well contain them) the duties of referee, arbiter, judge. They entertain the greatest respect for him; evince the utmost affection; look up to him as their master; go to him
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inscriptions, and helped sell them to passing ships for good prices as cultural artefacts, though he never claimed they were genuine. The artisans knew currency exchange rates and could deal with Europeans and Americans on their own terms.
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Salmon sold the Brander Easter Island holdings to the Chilean government on 2 January 1888 and signed as a witness to the cession of the island. He returned to Tahiti in December of that year. He left for the remote
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after being arrested and put in prison for assault and battery. He collected the oral histories of the people of the Tuamotus. He moved to San Francisco in later life and was involved in a scheme to marry ex-Queen
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of Tahiti, he fell in love with her twenty-year-old adoptive sister Oehau. For three days the queen suspended the law forbidding a Tahitian to marry a foreigner, gave Princess Oehau the title
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Alexander Ariʻipaea Salmon was their son, Alexander Jr., known as "Pa'ea" (Mangarevan for 'hobble'). He inherited his father's business interests and became co-owner with Brander of the
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The information Salmon provided, despite its often poor quality, is still among the most important of Easter Island's early historical period. He also sent three genuine
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of Hawaii, who he claimed he had been engaged to from birth. The plot was merely a heist to take Liliuokalani's money to pay his debt. He died in 1914.
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Salmon returned to Tahiti in 1883–1884 for business. Upon his return to Easter Island he bought up all remaining land apart from the SSCC mission at
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In addition to wool exports, Salmon developed a tourist industry. He encouraged the manufacture of Rapanui artworks, including imitation
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ruler as Queen Marau (1877–1880) until he abdicated to the French colonial government. Another daughter married the Scottish merchant
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with all their troubles; refer to him all their disputes and grievances. His word is law, and his decisions final and undisputed.
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owned a large sheep ranch on Easter Island for exporting wool. The ranch was managed by the power-hungry convicted murderer
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wife "Queen". This was the low point in the island's history; by 1872 its resident population had been reduced to 111.
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Alexandre Salmon, 1820–1866, et sa femme Ariitaimai, 1821–1897: deux figures de Tahiti à l'époque du protectorat
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number of Rapanui whose indentures had expired and ran the island for a decade. He introduced the
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to the island in 1882 and for the Americans in 1886, as guide, translator, and hotelier.
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As he was not a religious man, and a Jew, the priests did not like him, especially
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tablets to his niece's husband, Heinrich August Schlubach, the German consul of
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Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island
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Salmon served as the principal informant for the British and
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Index

Alexander Ariipaea Salmon

Tahiti
Easter Island
Chile
Alexander Salmon
Pōmare IV
ari'i
Johanna Marau Ta'aroa
Pōmare V
John Brander
copra
coconut oil
Marquesas
Cook Islands
Jean-Baptiste Dutrou-Bornier
Rapanui
Rapanui
indentured
Mahina
coconut
SSCC
Hanga Roa
Hippolyte Roussel
Jaussen
Atamu te Kena
rongorongo
German archaeological expeditions
USS Mohican
Valparaíso

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