IDNO

P.87328.VH

Description

Dufty studio portrait of a sotia or ovisa of the Armed Native Constabulary. The hair at the front of his hair has been dyed black, but the longer tobe at the back of his head have been left lime-bleached, so are two-coloured. (Bands of multicoloured hair were fashionable in pre-Christian Fiji.) He has a batinivuaka boar tusk pendant at his throat, wears the blue A.N.C. issue pullover type shirt with its elbow-lengthed sleeves, and has an ANC issue belt buckled above his fringed white barkcloth wasit sash.
1875 - 1876. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

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.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/.

Related Image: This print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 27/12/2011]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [Alex Nadin, 12/02/2003]