Loan (Exhibition)
Initial enquiry only
Event Date
Author: maa

Loan (Exhibition)
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, Norwich, October 15 2016- February 12 2017, Fiji: Art and Life in the Pacific
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Note on catalogue card: " "Idol" idea possibly of missionaries, the Fijians did not worship idols.
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Head of a male image. ?Figure. THis was the part of a figure presented to the collector, name of donor unknown, and was separated from the body part on account of transportation difficulties. Scarce.
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 1 reads [stamped in black ink:] 'Z-2879 FIJI'. [typed:] 'Matai Lombau, Wai ni Mala river, Viti Levu. Tholo East province. Head of a male image. [added in pencil: '?figure']. This was the part of a figure presented to the collector, name of donor unknown, and was separated from the body part on account of transportation difficulties. Matakau = image or idol. Scarce.' [added in pencil:] '"Idol" idea possibly a missionaries. The Fijian did not worship idols [+ Hayter's signature]'. [stamped in black ink:] 'THE VON HÜGEL COLLECTION CIRCA 1875.' [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '3/225'. [added in pencil:] 'OX 428 H'. [added in black ink:] '(Centenary Exhibition). [stamped in blue ink in the bottom right corner:] 'SHOW CASE NUMBER 3'. A small round red sticker pasted to the front of the card. A black and white photograph of the object pasted to the back of the card with the following note [in black pen:] 'fr. Matailobau Viti Levu Fiji. c. 1876.'
Catalogue card 2 reads [handwritten in black ink:] 'Z 2879. Matai Lombau, Wai ni Mala river, VITI LEVU. Tholo East province. Head of a male image. [added in pencil: '?figure']. This was the part of a figure presented to the collector, name of donor unknown, and was separated from the body part on account of transportation difficulties. Matakau = image or idol. Scarce. Show case number 3' [added in pencil:] '"Idol" idea possibly a missionaries. The Fijian did not worship idols'. [added in blue pen:] 'C (C.1876) & D . A. VON HUGEL'. [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '3/225'. [added in pencil:] 'OX 428 H'.
Event Date 4/10/2012
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
Heavy carved head of dark vesi wood, slightly smaller than life-size. Originally belonging to a larger piece but sawn off at the top of the neck. Small protruding oval ears. Naturalistic nose with carved nostrils. Round eye sockets in the middle of which elongated oval eyelids and eyes are protruding. A horizontal incisions marks the mouth, framed by slightly raised lips. Several cracks run vertically from the top of the head. On one particularly large one has split the head at the back. The flat sawn part underneath the head is very light in colour.
Event Date 4/10/2012
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: It bears the following inscription: '[word under a label] of Matakau or image [word illegible] of Viti Levu, Fiji. A small rectangular cream label with blue border reads [handwritten in black ink:] 'F. 43.a. A.v.H.'
Event Date 24/3/2013
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (CMS Context)
Exhibited: 'Chiefs & Governors: Art and power in Fiji', Cambridge MAA, 7 June 2013 - 19 April 2014.
Event Date 25/4/2014
Author: Remke van der Velden

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2015.2034 | Remedial
Event Date 6/10/2015
Author: rah99

Description (CMS Description)
Head
Heavy craved head of dark wood. Originally belonged to a larger piece.
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

Loan (Exhibition)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 15/12/2019 to 19/07/2020, Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific
Event Date 15/12/2019
Author: Katrina Dring

Loan (Exhibition)
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachussetts, 12/09/2020 to 03/01/2021, Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific
Event Date 12/9/2020
Author: Katrina Dring