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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.
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.
- Windward Islands
- Windward Islands, French Polynesia
- 1764
- Jason Scott Wills
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.
