IDNO

P.87367.VH

Description

Studio portrait of Ratu Marika Toroca. See P.87349.VH and associated references. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003]

A studio portrait of Ratu Marika Toroca, an elderly Christian chief. The bearded man is wearing the courtroom wig?, and had been Native Associate Judge of the old Cakobau Government of the early 1870s. He wears an iwabale sash of white masi round his right shoulder and upper arm.
Circa 1875- 1876. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, from record P.4107.ACH1, updated JD 8/11/2011]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka; eastern Vitilevu; Tailevu; Namata

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Ratu Marika Toroca

Photographer

Dufty Brothers, Levuka (Dufty, Francis Herbert)

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1875 - 1876

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 original uncropped and unmanipulated print, P.87349.VH, has the same background as the print, P.87301.VH, which is published on the National Library of Australia website with the attribution to Francis Dufty. Dufty’s Levuka studio is recognisable 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 16/3/2012]

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