IDNO

P.87238.VH

Description

“Samoa”. [von Hügel’s? annotation]

F.H. Dufty carte-de-visite studio photograph of a Samoan woman in respectable Fijian woman’s dress of the day, with two tufts of striped and frazzled pandanus leaf streamers in her hair, a tasselled neckband at her throat, a coloured off-the-shoulder and puff-sleeved vinivoa (“pinafore”) bodice trimmed with white ?lace, and an isulu wrap-around skirt.
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 commercial photograph appears more than once in the MAA Collections. There is no original negative. [JD 22/12/2011]

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