IDNO

P.87249.VH

Description

Studio photograph of a pair of men carrying baskets of dalo (taro) (left) and uvi (yams) on a shoulder pole. The pole is actually a fine titoko or elder’s stave which would be unlikely to have been put to such a purpose. Both are dressed in cloth isulu, the man in front, whose hair is coated with lime or ashes, also wearing a leather belt. The man at rear holds a spear, the man at front a smaller titoko stave. J.W. Waters photograph? 1880s-1890s. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003]

Physical Condition: This photograph is a detail of a postcard that has been printed back to front. The postcard was ?photographed / printed by F.W. Caine and is number 101 in a series. [Alex Nadin, 30/9/2003]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Waters, J.W.; ?Caine & Co., Suva; ?Caine, F.W.;

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1880 - 1899

Collection Name

Von Hugel Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

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/.

Publication: The full postcard is reproduced in Fiji’s Past on Picture Postcards, Elsie Stephenson (1997), fig.257, p.258. [Alex Nadin, 30/9/2003]

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. [Alex Nadin, 30/9/2003]