IDNO

P.87300.VH

Description

Portrait of a Kai Colo ‘mountaineer’ in an oval vignette.

Head and shoulders studio portrait of an untamed Kai Colo or Vitilevu highlander, obviously close kin to Nabukatavatava of the Koroqaqa - see P.87203 & P.87204. He is wearing a whale ivory saunidaliga ear ornament in the slit and distended lobe of his right ear, and a necklace strung with two rows of white trade beads. Early 1870s. [Fergus Clunie, 26/9/2003]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Kai Colo [historically Big Head Mountaineers]

Named Person

Photographer

Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka)

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1870 - 1875

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/.

Photographer: This image was previously provisionally attributed to Dufty, but theduplicate print has been identified as being of Francis Dufty’s studio, Levuka. (Compare with P.70157.ACH2.) [JD 28/3/2012]

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