IDNO

P.94001.ACH2

Description

Studio portrait of Tongan woman, bare chested and wearing checked kilt and bead choker. Curtain and cabinet in background. [Jocelyne Dudding 22/07/03]

Dufty studio portrait of “Kaba”, a bare-breasted young woman of mixed (Fijian-Tongan?) ancestry wearing a plaid rug or throw as an isulu wrap-around skirt.
Levuka, circa 1875-1876. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003, description from record P.87454.VH, JD 10/10/2017]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Tonga; Fiji; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Tongan

Named Person

Kaba

Photographer

Dufty Brothers, Levuka

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1874 - 1875

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/.

Publication: Published as part of composite carte d' visite board in Edwards, E., (ed.) Apring 1997. History of Photography. p34, Figure 3. with caption "F. and A. Dufty, South Sea islanders, n.d. (c.1877). Glass plate negative. Courtesy of the Fiji Museum,Suva.” [Jocelyne Dudding 22/07/03]

Photographer: This print was provisionally attributed to “?Dufty Brothers, Levuka”, but Dufty’s Levuka studio is recognisable through 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 the original image at MAA from which the associated photographs have been derived from. [JD 10/10/2017]

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