Vailele
Vailele | |
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Village | |
  Vailele | |
| Coordinates:13°50′56″S171°43′37″W/ 13.84889°S 171.72694°W | |
| Country |  Samoa |
| District | Tuamasaga |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | 2,869 |
| Time zone | +13 |
Vaileleis a village situated on the central north coast ofUpoluisland inSamoa.It’s not to be confused with the far biggerVaitele.
Vailele is in the electoral constituency (faipule district) of Vaimauga East in the larger political district ofTuamasaga.[1]
The village is less than ten minutes east of the country's capital,Apia.The settlement is north facing and situated in Vailele Bay.
Historical
[edit]In the 1800s, the large Vailele Plantation inland was owned by the German company Deutsche Handels und Plantagen Gesellschaft (DHPG) which employed workers from theMelanesianislands. DHPG was a major plantation owner in Samoa. It had formerly traded in the Pacific as Godeffroys but changed its name and expanded operations in Samoa when the family's parent company inHamburgbecame bankrupt. [2]Much of the village land lost duringcolonialismis now owned by the government operated Western Samoa Trust Estate Corporation (WSTEC). Financial difficulties by WSTEC in the late 1970s and early 1980s resulted in the sale of land in Vailele. However, the government returned some of the land to villagers in Vailele and neighbouring villagesLauli'iand Letogo.[3]
Archaeology
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Archaeological field work in Samoa uncovered earth mounds at Vailele, including a large mound Laupule, associated with a figure called Tupuivao in oral history and another mound Tapuitea (evening star).[4]
The studies of the mounds during the early 1940s were carried out by New Zealand anthropologistDerek Freeman(referred to as J.D. Freeman in literature) who was a schoolteacher in Samoa from April 1940 to November 1943.[5]Freeman also excavated theFalemauga Cavesin Upolu's interior. Plainware pottery sherds were found in 1957 by archaeologistJack Golson.
Notable people
[edit]- Mikaele Pesamino,arugby unionplayer in theSamoa Sevensteam which representsSamoainternationally inrugby sevens.[6]
- Simaika Mikaele,also a rugby union player in theSamoa Sevensteam
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"Population and Housing Census Report 2006"(PDF).Samoa Bureau of Statistics.July 2008. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 21 July 2011.Retrieved19 December2009.
- ^[1]Plantation workers: resistance and accommodation by Brij V. Lal, Doug Munro, Edward D. Beecher, p. 114. Retrieved 2 November 2009
- ^[2]Changing perception of land: Samoa 2000byPeggy Fairbairn-Dunlop,Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment, Samoa Government. Retrieved 2 November 2009
- ^[3]Lagaga: a short history of Western Samoa by Malama Meleisea and Penelope Schoeffel Meleisea, p. 20. Retrieved 2 November 2009
- ^Hempenstall, Peter (2004). "Our Missionaries and Cultural Change in Samoa".The Journal of Pacific History.Vol. 39, No.2.39(2): 241–250.doi:10.1080/0022334042000250760.JSTOR25169695.S2CID219626943.
- ^"Samoa win Hong Kong Sevens".Times LIVE.28 March 2010.Retrieved31 March2010.
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