IDNO

P.87262.VH

Description

Studio portrait of “Koroi-cata (Lasakau - Bau)”. Koroicata was a member of the Lasakau - one of the fishing or seafarer tribes at Bau island, just off the east coast of Vitilevu.
The man is cultivating tobe tufts at the back and left side of his head, is bare-chested and he wears a batinivuaka boar tusk necklace ...
Circa 1869-1871. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003, from record P.87312.VH, updated JD 28/11/2011]

Physical Condition: The image has been cropped to form a quarter-length portrait. [JD 28/11/2011]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka; Bau; Lasakau

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Koroicata (Koroi-cata)

Photographer

Dufty Brothers, Levuka

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1869 - 1871

Collection Name

Von Hugel Collection

Source

Format

Photomechanical Print

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/.

P.87261.VH and P.87262.VH are printed on one sheet.

Photographer: This print was provisionally attributed to “?Dufty Brothers, Levuka”, but the uncropped duplicate print, P.87312.VH, has been identified as Dufty’s Levuka studio through the recognicaton through the backdrop of foliage of banana? leaves to the right. This configuration of studio props appears to be used by Dufty between circa 1869 - 1875. The Photographer and Place fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 12/3/2012]

Related Image: A set of the same or similar woodburytype from Dufty portraits are in the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, some of which are named, see reference 1998.237 [E. Edwards]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [Alex Nadin, 17/2/2003]