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When the US Army left Bora Bora after the
war, its inhabitants did not see it as a blow
dealt by fate. After that experience, they found
themselves not richer or poorer than before. And
they took it with philosophy: “It’s over now. It was
like a beautiful dream…”
But the road of tourism had opened and the
film industry had now taken hold of the wonderful
beaches and of the island’s breathtaking lagoon.
People came from the four corners of the world to
shoot a documentary or a film sequence.
A young girl named Tumata Teutau appeared
in a documentary by Landry, the brother-in-law of
the French Overseas Ministry of the time.
Like many young girls of Bora Bora, she was
part of a dance group which kept winning prizes
at the July Festival in Tahiti and in which Tumata
particularly stood out. In 1955, she was a model
for photographer Adolphe Sylvain but it was a
photograph extracted from Landry’s film that
called the attention of engraver Pierre Gandon,
who exquisitely drew the famous “Young girl of
Bora Bora”, a stamp which received the Philatelic
Art Grand Prize in 1955.
C.BESLU
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