IDNO

D.98908.GCUM

Description

“Trophy of Oil bowls. One duck shaped. One turtle shaped. Some are carved to look like Cocoa nuts. Some are Cocoanuts. The black fringes of Water weed are worn as a kilt by men (with under kilt of paper rubbery cloth (bark). The yellow fringe is a girl’s dress.” [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.