IDNO

P.87375.VH

Description

Studio portrait of a member of the Armed Native constabulary in fighting or taqa military review dress. The long hair at the left side of his head is twisted into long tobe plaitlets, and he has a batinivuaka boar tusk pendant at his throat. He is wearing a fringed white barkcloth iwabale shoulder sash and a waist sash, above which is his A.N.C. issue cartridge belt, and has a black likusausauwai overskirt over his malo loincloth. The muscles of his arms above the elbow and his legs just below the knee are braced with black vesasausauwai wrappings fringed with glass trade beads. Across his knees is a Snider-Enfield rifle.
Levuka, circa 1875-1876. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Dufty Brothers, Levuka

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1875 - 1876

Collection Name

Von Hugel Collection

Source

Format

Carte-de-visite; Print Black & White Mounted

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/.

Related Image: This print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 29/12/2011]

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