IDNO

P.98956.GCUM

Description

“Passage from the drawing room to the dining room - Nasova. Fijian servants, wearing wild boar’s tusk.” [Gordon Cumming’s annotation, JD 6/1/2012]

Physical Condition: This black and white photograph has been hand coloured by Gordon Cumming. Duplicate prints of this photograph exist in CUMMA’s collections.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Near Levuka; Nasova

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

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.

This album open at this page was displayed in Collected Sights in the section, The Collections with the descriptive label: “The personal album of artist Constance Gordon Cumming who visited Fiji in 1875 as a guest of Sir Arthur Gordon, the British Governor. The album contains carte-de-visite, cabinet cards and vignettes of her family, friends and acquaintances, studio photographs from Fiji, and photographic reproductions of her fine watercolours.” [A. Nadin, 16/10/2003]

Related Image: This print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 7/1/2012]