Tamafaiga

Tamafaiga was the king of much of Samoa prior to his assassination in 1830.

Tamafaiga first rose to prominence as an oracle for a god. He leveraged this power into becoming king. The people of A'ana disagreed with his methods of rule and assassinated him.

Sources

Derek Freeman. Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1983), p. 178.

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