IDNO

P.87355.VH

Description

Koroicata of the Lasakau tribe, Bau. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Studio portrait of “Koroi-cata (Lasakau - Bau)”. Koroicata was a member of the Lasakau - one of the fishing or seafarer tribes at Bau island, just off the east coast of Vitilevu.
The man is cultivating tobe tufts at the back and left side of his head, is bare-chested and he wears a batinivuaka boar tusk necklace ...
Circa 1869-1871. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003, from record P.87312.VH, updated JD 28/11/2011]

Physical Condition: The image has been cropped to form a quarter-length portrait. [JD 28/11/2011]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka; Bau; Lasakau

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Koroicata (Koroi-cata)

Photographer

Dufty Brothers, Levuka

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1869 - 1871

Collection Name

Von Hugel Collection

Source

Format

Photomechanical Print

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.87352.VH to P.87387.VH were in the envelope now numbered C512/6/. 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 the uncropped duplicate print, P.87312.VH, has been identified as Dufty’s Levuka studio through the recognicaton through the backdrop of foliage of banana? leaves to the right. This configuration of studio props appears to be used by Dufty between circa 1869 - 1875. The Photographer and Place fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 12/3/2012]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [Alex Nadin, 17/2/2003]