IDNO

P.87283.VH

Description

A “warrior” dressed for dance in the fully blown and increasingly standardised traditional “war” or ceremonial costume of the twentieth century, with black face paint, sundry hair ornaments, patterned barkcloth iwabale shoulder sash, vesa armbands and leg wrappings, and a voluminous liku skirt of striped, dyed and pleated pandanus leaf, with a massive bunched train of white barkcloth.
The image was subsequently published by Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard (1924) as a Fiji government public relations photograph. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd [Publishers]

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1920 - 1924

Collection Name

Von Hugel Collection

Source

Format

Postcard Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.87278.VH to P.87283.VH were in the print envelope now numbered C512/1/. This envelope came from the Museum’s paper archive envelope VH1/4/7, which has now been re-numbered C512/.

Publication: A copy of this postcard is published in Fiji’s Past on Picture Postcards, Elsie Stephenson (1997), fig.196, p.215.

Publication: A duplicate of this photograph is on the website ‘www.janeresture.com’.

Publication: Plate from a 1920s -1930s edition of the official colonial Handbook of Fiji. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Program One.