IDNO

P.87356.VH

Description

Cropped version of F.H. Dufty’s studio portrait of a bearded and bare chested man of the Lasakau fisher tribe of Bau. In the uncropped portrait the man is wearing a chequered and apparently fringed isulu kilt and holding an iulatavatava throwing club.
Early to mid 1870s. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, from record P.52431.VH, updated, JD 25/11/2011]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; ?Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Dufty Brothers, Levuka

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1870 - 1875

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 image, via its uncropped duplicate print, P.52431.VH, is recognisable as Dufty’s Levuka studio through the painted studio backdrop to represent a view out a window with shutters (note the knob added to the shutter that casts a shadow). This appears to be a feature of Dufty’s studio throughout the 1870s, although the idealised landscape ‘view’ changes around 1875-1876. The Photographer, Date, and Place fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 13/3/2012]

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