Waiooo...So amazed coming across this picture of back home from another island here in Saipan. Just wish I have a picture of this exact place to compare then and now. First thing, I'll do as soon I get home.

The Mountains in the back are Tuakata, Ikurangi and Tekou. I think the shop in the photo is of Pemberton Shop, where we use to go and buy our shoes. Next to this shop, use to be the Hoff family homestead. Near the harbour side, there use to be the Taripos farm, where they use to farm cows for milk and butter for the community. There is also a horse and cart in the image, and the roads are sandy. There is still the triangle, that still stands today. The roof at the front of the image is the...

The present caption is incorrect. The photo is of a Nukumanu man called Manauī who drifted to Takū in Papua New Guinea (aka Mortlock Islands) in the late 1800s. He was adopted by the then paramount leader (te ariki) and later assumed the title of ariki. More details can be found here: Songs from the Second Float: A Musical Ethnography of Takū Atoll, Papua New Guinea, by Richard Moyle, pp.34-5 (University of Hawaii Press 2007). The photograph was taken around 1910 by Ernst Sarfert from a Germa...