IDNO

P.87220.

Description

“Qara ni valu (Tui Kadavu,) Kadavu”.
Photograph of old Qaranivalu, Tui Kadavu, Kadavu - the southernmost major island of Fiji, well to the south of Vitilevu - with what are presumably his wife, daughters and grandchildren, attended by two men with clubs. As becomes a chief of his standing, Qaranivalu wears a fringed white barkcloth ivauvau or hair wrapper, a long sleeved shirt, and from the ribs down is wrapped in a gatu barkcloth worn in the chiefly Tongan style. Some of the women are wearing long smock frocks, others waisted skirts, one with a short-sleeved, broad necked vinivoa (pinafore) bodice and one an isulu wrap-around skirt secured by an ioro waistband.
1870s. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto paper.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Kadavu Island

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Qaranivalu

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1870 - 1880

Collection Name

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.87203 to P.87221 were in the Museum’s paper archive envelope, OA2/5/12, which has now been re-numbered C511/.

Related Image: This print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 21/12/2011]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [A. Nadin 2/7/2003]