IDNO

P.99682.VH

Description

A beached large Fijian tabilai (single canoe) with an unset woven sail tied to the boom, and a wooden outrigger float. On the canoe platform are a woven basket, metal bucket, mats, and pile of scrap?. In the background are colonial style buildings and stores. [JD 26/3/2008]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1874 - 1878

Collection Name

von Hügel Collection

Source

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.99674.VH to P.99724.VH are in A.174.VH. The album was formerly kept in paper archive Large Box G; VH1/4/5. It has now been transferred to the photo archive. The lists describing the contents of this box have been returned to the Paper Archive.

Related Image: This commercial photograph appears more than once in the MAA Collections. There is no original negative. [JD 7/12/2011]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Fund. [A. Nadin, 4/9/2003]