IDNO

P.70827.ACH2

Description

“Tokalau, or Line Islander”

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Kiribati; Tuvalu; Line Islands; Ovalau Island; Levuka [Tokelau]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Dufty Brothers, Levuka (Dufty, Francis Herbert)

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

Unmounted Haddon CollectionVon Hugel

Source

Format

Carte-de-visite; Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.70818.ACH2 to P.70848.ACH2 were found inside the envelope now numbered C309/4/3/ which came from drawer 4 of the entire cabinet formerly numbered as batch 153, now re-numbered C309/.

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being “Oceania; Melanesia”, but the print is annotated as ‘Tokelau, or Line Island’. Tokelau consists of three atolls north of Samoa. Line Islands is an island grouping belonging to Kiribati. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [Source: MSN Mappoint, JD 7/5/2010]

Photographer: This print was provisionally attributed to “?Dufty Brothers, Levuka”. This is consistent with the style and the wooden chair used in the image. The Photographer and Place fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 28/3/2012]

Context: The woman is annotated as ‘Tokolau’, loosely meaning what are now Tuvualu and Kiribati woman. “Tokelau” labourers were imported for the Fiji plantations, and Tokelau women, with their less melanesoid features, being favoured as planters’ and traders’ wives or mistresses. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, from record P.52450.VH, JD 10/17/2013]

MAA Exhibition: Image included in 'Pacific Currents', 2019-, as part of the digital slide show 'Cosmopolitan Fiji
Francis Dufty’s Photographic Studio, Levuka, 1871 - 1884', and captioned: "“Tokalau, or Line Islander”
‘Tokolau’, loosely meaning what are now Tuvalu and Kiribati woman, were imported as labourers for the Fiji plantations, although many became planters’ or traders’ wives.
Levuka, Fiji, 1875-76
P.70827.ACH2. [JD 08/05/2019]

Related Image: This print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 5/12/2011]