IDNO

P.87294.VH

Description

A head and shoulders portrait of a Fijian man facing the camera, subsequently produced by Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard (1924) as a Fiji government public relations photo. [JD 6/10/2009]

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

Related Image: This commercial photograph appears more than once in the MAA Collections. There is no original negative. [JD 15/11/2011]

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