IDNO

P.87242.VH

Description

F.H. Dufty studio carte-de-visite photograph of two Fijian women, each respectably dressed, with off-the-shoulder vinivoa (“pinafore”) bodices and barkcloth isulu skirts. Notice the feet of the photographer’s clamps on the floor behind them - one plain, the other ornately cast.
Early to mid 1870s. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

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 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]