On White Sunday, Samoan women and children dress completely in white clothing.
The depiction of topless Samoan women in the production was cited as the cause for this censorship.
He removed several local leaders from power, and outlawed marriages between United States Navy sailors and Samoan women.
It's certainly possible that the photographers used them to pique Western fantasies, but it's also possible that Samoan women ran around without tops.
For example, around 1893, John Davis took a picture of a group of Samoan women, all topless, preparing the drink called kava.
There were three uniformed policemen on duty, and one Samoan woman in a business suit pretty obviously surveying the crowd.
Around this time he also married Salaneta, a Samoan woman, with whom he had one son.
This eventually led to a ban in 1931 that prohibited Chinese men from interacting with Samoan women on all grounds.
He spent many years in American Samoa, and married a Samoan woman in December 1966.
He drew criticism for forbidding a Samoan woman from marrying a Korean man; the two sued the governor.