IDNO

P.87290.VH

Description

Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard (1924) of a group of Fijian men and women in a highland village, with the thatched vale set out in the regimental encouraged by the colonial authorities. Two of the women are holding long bamboos for carrying water. The off-the-shoulder vinivoa (pinafore) bodices of the 1870s - circa 1900 are gone and have been replaced by a knee length smock dress worn over an ankle length isulu.
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/.

Publication: On Rod Ewins’ internet site ‘www.justpacific.com’:
““A mountain village, Fiji”.
Tuck’s Post Card. Publisher Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., By Appointment. Copyright Fiji Government, Printed in England.
No date. On the reverse is the caption: “Most Fijian villages are on the coast, but this is amongst the hills”.” [A. Nadin, 2/7/2003]

Publication: Duplicates of this postcard are on the websites ‘www.janeresture.com/fijihome/postcards.htm’ and
‘www.justpacific.com’ in the section concerning the photographs used on Fijian postcards. [A. Nadin, 2/7/2003]

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. [A. Nadin, 2/7/2003]