IDNO

P.87259.VH

Description

Photograph of A.J.L Gordon’s sketch of “Colai Valu of the Nailega tribe, Dela Vatu Levu, 23rd July 1875”, made when he journeyed in the interior of Vitilevu with Walter Carew in 1875 and reproduced photograpically for inclusion in his pamphlet of that tour. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003]

This is a photograph of a drawing of the head of a Kai Colo ‘mountaineer’ man without his wig. [A Nadin, 2/7/2003]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Viti Levu; Dela Vatu Levu

Cultural Affliation

Kai Colo [historically Big Head Mountaineers]

Named Person

Colai Valu

Photographer

Gordon, Arthur J.L. [Artist]

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

post 23 July 1875

Collection Name

Von Hugel Collection

Source

Format

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/.

Publication: See A.J.L. Gordon, 1875, ‘An Account of Mr Walter Carew’s tour of the island of Viti Levu’, reproduced in Domodomo, 1986, 4 (1), 55-81. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003]

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]