IDNO

P.87236.VH

Description

“Samoa”. [von Hügel’s? annotation]

F.H. Dufty carte-de-visite studio photograph of a Samoan woman whose long, oiled and tied back hair is held at the back of her head in a hairnet, and who wears long pendant ear-drops, a cloth band round the neck, and a locket on a chain. She is otherwise dressed in a be-ribboned, just on-the-shoulder pleated bodice with short puffed sleeves - the exact equivalent of a Fijian vinivoa bodice - and an elaborately tasselled and fringed wrap-around skirt. What appears to be fringed and streamered striped pandanus leaf waistband is largely obscured.
Circa 1875-1876. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Samoa; Ovalau Island; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Samoan

Named Person

Photographer

Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka)

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1875 - 1876

Collection Name

Von Hugel Collection

Source

Format

Carte-de-visite; Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.87222.VH to P.87277.VH were found loose in the Museum’s paper archive envelope, VH1/4/7, which has now been re-numbered C512/.

Related Image: This print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 22/12/2011]

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