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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, (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.
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, Fletcher Christian’s widow, laboured over great lengths of exquisitely made white aute tapa. There are several examples of these in the British Museum. In 1791, Mauatua and another of the Bounty women, Teraura, arrived at Pitcairn Island as the oldest and youngest of the women, and they eventually outlived all the original settlers.
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.
primary name: Mauatua other name: Christian, Maimiti other name: Isabella
