IDNO

P.87287.VH

Description

Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard showing a wall of root crops, punctuated by pole towers of more root crops (mostly dalo or taro) and vudi plantains and topped by whole roasted pigs, being made ready for a food presentation.
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.87284.VH to P.87296.VH were in the print envelope now numbered C512/2/. This envelope came from the Museum’s paper archive envelope VH1/4/7, which has now been re-numbered C512/.

A copy of this postcard is published in Fiji’s Past on Picture Postcards, Elsie Stephenson (1997), fig.239, p.247. [Alex Nadin, 30/9/2003]

Related Image: This print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 26/12/2011]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [Alex Nadin, 30/9/2003]