IDNO

D.98947.GCUM

Description

“The kitchen of a Fijian Chief. Fireplace in centre of the house. Earthenware pots made by hand. no wheel. The sketch from wh [which] this was photod is in my pottery book.” [Gordon Cumming’s annotation, JD 6/1/2012]

This a photograph of an original Gordon Cumming sketch, over which she has painted in colour.

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

Print Colour

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.