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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.
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.
These are the names of the twelve Polynesian women who by love and kidnapping arrived at Pitcairn Island aboard the Bounty in 1790. With them were nine mutineers and six Polynesian men. The history books rarely mention the womens’ names. They are the nameless, faceless heroines of our history.
- Pauline Reynolds
Mauatua and Teraura were the oldest and youngest women to arrive on Pitcairn in 1790. They outlived all the other original settlers. They worked together making fine white tapa cloth.
Mauatua, Toofaiti, Vahineatua, and Teio had children from two of the mutineers and one of their sons. Tevarua and Teraura had only one partner. Together they had 24 children, who in turn had 77 children.
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.
Fletcher Christian's Tahitian wife Mauatua (Miamiti) and her friends and relatives speak directly to us in beautiful and startlingly perceptive ways as they move away from their homeland and pass into the feverish intensity of drunkenness, lust and murder that marks the early years on Pitcairn.
