IDNO

P.87380.VH

Description

Dufty studio portrait of a young Fijian man in gala or dance dress. He has artificial flowers and streamers made from striped and macerated coconut or pandanus leaf in his short hair, holds a war club, and has a trade knife stuck through the fringed white barkcloth wrapping round his upper left arm. At his throat is a white shell pendant on a black band. He wears a dark brown masikuvui barkcloth shoulder sash or iwabale, and wears a brown and white gatuvakatoga barkcloth isulu wrap-around skirt, surmounted by a white barkcloth waist sash. He has a series of ornamental cicatrices on his upper left arm, and a line of what look like pale cicatrice dots running down his left forearm.
Circa 1875-1876. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Dufty Brothers, Levuka (Dufty, Francis Herbert)

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]