IDNO

P.87239.VH

Description

F.H. Dufty carte-de-visite studio photograph of a Fijian woman wearing the usual Christian woman’s dress of the day - an off-the-shoulder vinivoa (“pinafore”) bodice, with short puff-sleeves in this case, and an isulu wrap-around skirt, secured by a fringed white barkcloth waist sash. She has a small white cowrie pendant at the throat, and wears a simple metal earring.
Circa 1875-1876. See P.100044.VH. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003]

F.H. Dufty studio portrait of “Emma of Levuka” = Yadi Ema. She is wearing a vinivoa off-the-shoulder bodice and a cloth isulu skirt surmounted by a fringed white barkcloth waist sash, and a small white cowry pendant on a black band.
Early to mid 1870s. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, from record P.100044.VH, JD 22/12/2011]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Yadi Ema (Emma, daughter of Tui Levuka)

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/.

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