IDNO

P.87325.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

Carte-de-visite; Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.87321.VH to P.87342.VH were in the envelope now numbered C512/4/. This envelope came from the Museum’s paper archive envelope VH1/4/7, which has now been re-numbered C512/.

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