IDNO

P.87359.VH

Description

Kai Colo or Vitilevu highland prisoner. See P.87313.VH and P.87301.VH for background and his hapless companions. He is wearing the same sisi or sperm whale tooth necklace as the manacled P.87313.VH.
Levuka, circa 1873-74. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Portrait of a man in an oval vignette.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Kai Colo [historically Big Head Mountaineers]

Named Person

Photographer

Dufty Brothers, Levuka (Dufty, Francis Herbert)

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1873 - 1874

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 related print with the same background, P.87301.VH, is published on the National Library of Australia website with the attribution to Francis Dufty. The Photographer and Place fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 9/3/2012]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [A. Nadin, 2/7/2003]