IDNO

P.87240.VH

Description

“Tanna”. [von Hügel’s? annotation]

An F.H. Dufty carte-de-visite photograph of a bare-breasted Tannese woman with an ornamental comb in her hair, and wearing an unhemmed kilt that might have been torn from an old damask curtain, and a broad canvas belt with an ornate clasp buckle, broad belts being popular with Melanesian labourers imported from Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands to work on the Fiji plantations from the 1860s onwards.
Levuka, early to mid 1870s. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Oceania Melanesia; Fiji; Vanuatu; Ovalau Island; Levuka; Tanna

Cultural Affliation

Tannese

Named Person

Photographer

Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka)

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1870 - 1875

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]