IDNO

P.87340.VH

Description

Duplicate of P.52442.VH, q.v. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Studio portrait of a seated man surrounded by three youths and a boy. He is wearing an ivauvau hair-wrapper, a batinivuaka boar tusk pendant at his throat, and a short cotton isulu kilt, and has a dark bar painted down his forehead. The youth standing at left has his face painted, has a tobe plait behind his right ear, and is wearing a white barkcloth malo loincloth under his cotton print isulu kilt. The youth standing at right has his face blacked, has white barkcloth vesa wrappings tied above his right elbow, and also is wearing a malo under his cotton print isulu. The boy wears a skimpy isulu with a length of cloth tied round his waist as an ioro waistband. The youth seated at front also wears an ivauvau hair-wrapper.
Circa 1869-1871. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, from record P.52442.VH, JD 26/11/2011]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Dufty Brothers, Levuka

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1869 - 1871

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/.

Photographer: This print was provisionally attributed to “?Dufty Brothers, Levuka”, but Dufty’s Levuka studio is recognisable through the backdrop of foliage, including banana leaves, to the right and the pineapple? plant to the left. The same chair also appears in a number of Dufty’s photographs. This configuration of studio props appears to be used by Dufty between circa 1870 - 1875. [JD 12/3/2012]

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