POMARE IV: (1813-1877)

POMARE IV: (1813-1877) Queen of Tahiti 1827-77. Also known as “Aimata” (The “eye-eater” after an ancestral custom of the Tahiti ruler to eat the eye of his defeated enemy). Rare L.S., `Pomare´, one page, bifolium 8vo, n.p., n.d. [1852-54], to Théogène François Page - Papeete, in Tahitian. Aimata wishes a long life to her correspondent ("La ora na oe") and metions furher some delicious small sweets that she wishes to taste. With address leaf. Small creasing, otherwise G

Théogène François Page (1807-1867) French French naval officer. He was Commissioner of Tahiti from 1852 to 1854, Governor of Cochinchina in Saigon from 1860 to 1861.