IDNO

P.87258.VH

Description

River scene featuring a takia or velovelo dugout outrigger canoe with raised baca washstrakes but no end covers carrying a cargo of vudi plantains (Musa balbisiana). Her two man crew wear cotton isulu wrap-around skirts with waist sashes. One has his hair bound round with what are probably pandanus leaf bands, the other wears an ivauvau or hair-wrapping of what looks like white barkcloth.
1870s - 1880s. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1870 - 1889

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: Image published in ‘The Fiji Journals of Baron Anatole Von Hugel 1875 - 1877’, edited by Jane Roth and Steven Hooper (1990), plate 7a, page 19. [A Nadin, 2/7/2003]

Related Image: This print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 23/12/2011]

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