IDNO

D.98877.GCUM

Description

“Necklace - of Whale’s tooth on Cocoanut fibre. Ear Ornament.” [Gordon Cumming’s annotation, JD 6/1/2012]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Gordon Cumming, Constance Frederica [Original Artist]

Collector / Expedition

?Gordon Cumming, Constance Frederica

Date

circa 1876 - 1877

Collection Name

Gordon Cumming Collection

Source

Gordon Cumming, Constance Frederica

Format

Painting

Primary Documentation

Other Information

This album has been transferred from CUMMA’s Object Collections (original accession number Z 4152), into the Photographic Collections, and catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Program One.

P.98869.GCUM to P.99045.GCUM are in A.169.GCUM.

Related Image: This print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 2/1/2012]MAA Facebook: Image published on with the caption: "Travel writer and painter, Constance Gordon-Cumming (pictured below) was born on this day, 26 May 1837. She created over one thousand watercolors and was one of the most enterprising and intrepid travellers of her time – no easy task for a self-taught Victorian lady. MAA now houses many artworks she drew or painted while in the Pacific, including those pictured here. Happy 180th birthday Constance!
Image 1:
Portrait of Constance F. Gordon Cumming, as an older women c.1904
Gordon Cumming Collection
P.98869
Image 2:
“Necklace - of Whale’s tooth on Cocoanut fibre. Ear Ornament.”
Fiji circa 1876 - 1877
Gordon Cumming Collection
D.98877
Image 3:
“Roof of the dining room at Nasova - passage leading down to the dining room, Lady Gordon’s room and gentlemen’s rooms. Coral reef in the distance, and on the horizon Isle ...”
This black and white photograph has been hand coloured by Gordon Cumming.
Naves, Fiji circa 1876 - 1877
Gordon Cumming Collection
P.98955"
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