textile artist
Mauatua.
wife of the British mutineer HMS Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian
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About Mauatua
Mauatua, also Maimiti or Isabella Christian, also known as Mainmast, 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. Fine white tapa, which was her specialty, is held in the collections of the British Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum, amongst others.
Everything about Mauatua →- Occupation
- textile artist
- Died
- September 14, 1841