IDNO

P.87256.VH

Description

Wickstead & Palmer photograph of four bare-chested members of the Armed Native Constabulary, who visited Britain in the twentieth century under the command of A.B. Brewster, author of ‘The Hill Tribes of Fiji and King of the Cannibal Islands’.
Two are wearing their snake-buckled A.N.C. issue belts over their white “vandyked” isulu kilts, the other two red sashes or cummerbunds over their isulu. From left to right they are identified as:
‘Filipi’ or ‘Velipe Luto’ of ‘Lomachi’ [Lomaji], ‘Lau’ 5 ft. 7 7/8
‘Paulo nai Kaka’, of ‘Yuatha’ [?Yacata], ‘Taviuni’ [Taveuni] 6 ft. 1;
‘Ammisti Ta Qaqa’ of ‘Saucassa’ [?Sawakasa], ‘Tailevu’ 5ft 9 3/4
‘Dominio’ of ‘Vutia, Rewa’, 5 ft 5. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Europe British Isles; Fiji; United Kingdom; Lau; Rewa; Tavenui; England

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Filipi (Velipe) Luto; Paulo nai Kaka; Ammisti Ta Qaqa; Dominio; A.B. Brewster

Photographer

Wickstead & Palmer [?Photographic Studio]

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1900 - 1910

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/.

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