IDNO

D.98878.GCUM

Description

“2 necklaces of Whale’s tooth and rings of shell rubbed down on the rock. (C.F.G.C. A bait for Cuttle fish - 2 halves of a cowrie enclosing a heavy stone - it resembles a rat, [?which] is the foe of the cuttle fish. For legend see Appendix - At Home in Fiji).” [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.