IDNO

P.87298.VH

Description

Portrait of Ratu Apenisa Seru Cakobau in an oval vignette.

F.H. Dufty studio portrait of Ratu Seru Cakobau, Vunivalu of Bau and Tui Viti, Circa 1873. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003]

Head and shoulders studio portrait of Ratu Seru Cakobau, the then Vunivalu of Bau and Tui Viti. He is wearing a European suit, waistcoat, shirt, and tie, and a curtain hangs as a studio backdrop in the background.
The image is cropped and masked from a three-quarter length seated portrait [JD 26/3/2008, from record P.103563.VH, updated JD 16/12/2011]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Ratu Seru Cakobau, Vuniivalu of Bau, Tui Viti (formerly spelt as Thakombau)

Photographer

Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka)

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1873

Collection Name

Von Hugel Collection

Source

Format

Photomechanical Print

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.87297.VH to P.87320.VH were wrapped in the piece of paper now numbered C512/3/. This envelope came from the Museum’s paper archive envelope VH1/4/7, which has now been re-numbered C512/.

Publication: Duplicates of this photograph are on the websites ‘www.pictureaustralia.org’ and ‘www.nla.gov.au/catalogue/pictures/’. [AN 2/7/2003]

Publication: A duplicate image is published on National Library of Australia website, reference nla.pic-an10975065-4, with the following information:
Creator: Dufty, Francis H., 1846-1910.
Title: Cakobau [picture] / F.H. Dufty.
Date: between 1870 and 1879.
Extent: 1 photograph : carte de visite ; 7.3 x 5 cm.
Context: Part of Dufty, Francis H., 1846-1910. Panorama of Levuka, Fiji, and portraits [picture]
Series: Panorama of Levuka, Fiji, and portraits.
Notes: Mounted with a montage of 5 albumen prints forming a panorama, and 11 other carte-de-visite portraits of Fijian and Tongan Chiefs and people.
[Source: www.nla.gov.au, JD 9/3/2012]

Biographical Information: ‘Thakombau, ex-king of Fiji’, also known as Ratu Seru Cakobau, Vuniivalu of Bau, Tui Viti, chief of Fiji 1871 - 1874, b.1817 d.1883, accepted Christianaity 1854 and ended cannibalism, instrumental in ceding Fiji to Britain in 1874] [Source: University of Southern California, Mission Photography Archive, http://digarc.usc.edu/impa/controller/view/impa-m2531.html, JD 26/3/2008]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [AN 2/7/2003]