IDNO

D.99118.GCUM

Description

“Fortified town Koro Tiki, Viti Levu Bay, Fiji.” [von Hügel’s caption]

P.100309.VH - P.100312.VH: Photographs of paintings by Constance Frederika Gordon Cumming, traveller and theoretical “companion” to Lady Gordon, author of “At Home in Fiji", ‘A Lady’s Cruise in a French Man of War’, etc., done whilst she was in Fiji in 1875-1877.
“Fortified town Koro Tiki, Viti Levu Bay, Fiji” - A. von Hugel caption. “Koro tiko, Viti Levu Bay” - painter’s caption. Korotiki, which had a koronivalu or fortified town built onto its side, is the volcanic plug at centre. Vitilevu Bay. See pp.255-257 of CUMAA’s edition of ‘At Home in Fiji’, 27 October 1876. [Fergus Clunie, 17/10/2003, description from P.100309.VH, JD 23/11/2022]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Viti Levu; Korotiki [Koro Tiki]

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 4151), into the Photographic Collections, and catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Program One.

D.99046.GCUM to D.99120.GCUM are in A.170.GCUM.