IDNO

P.87304.VH

Description

Dufty studio portrait of “Kesi of Waikava town, Cakaudrove, Vanua Levu”. Waikava (or Fawn Harbour, after the wreck of the brig Fawn, is on the south coast of the Natewa Peninsula, east of Savusavu, southern Vanualevu). Kesi is wearing the blue jersey-type shirt of the Armed Native Constabulary, with its elbow-lengthed sleeves, with a fringed white barkcloth waist sash. 1875 - 1876. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka; southern Vanualevu; Savusavu; Natewa Peninsula; Waikava [Fawn Harbour]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Kesi

Photographer

Dufty Brothers, Levuka (Dufty, Francis Herbert)

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1875 - 1876

Collection Name

Von Hugel Collection

Source

Format

Carte-de-visite; Print Black & White Mounted

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/.

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]