IDNO

P.94000.ACH2

Description

Studio portrait of Tongan woman wearing barkcloth kilt and holding fan. [Jocelyne Dudding 22/07/03]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Tonga; Fiji; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Tongan

Named Person

Photographer

Dufty Brothers, Levuka (Dufty, Francis Herbert)

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1875 - 1876

Collection Name

Unmounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.70347.ACH2 to P.70370.ACH2 and P.93999.ACH2 to P.94001.ACH2 were found inside the envelope now numbered C316/4/1/ which came from drawer four of the entire cabinet formerly numbered as batch 152, now renumbered C316/.

Related Image: Same studio as Pitt Rivers Museum B.37.6.f-h which is attributed to Dufty Bros, c.1870 [Jocelyne Dudding 22/07/03].

Photographer: This print was previously unattributed, but 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. Further recognition of Dufty’s Levuka studio is through his use of the sideboard with a plainer and paler base (see P.87333.VH for same? sideboard with darker decorative scroll work and leaves? added to it). The sideboard is normally positioned to the left of the studio. The brocade curtain patterned with a floral design framed by a diamond-shaped outline is also distinct to Dufty’s Levuka studio. This configuration of studio props appears to be used by Dufty between circa 1874 - 1875. The Photographer, Date, and Place fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 13/3/2012]

Related Image: This print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 1/1/2012]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [Mark Elliott 04/02/04].