IDNO

P.99731.VH

Description

“Fijian Native Constabulary, Suva, Vitilevu.”. [von Hügel's annotation]

The same group of ovisa or sotia of the Armed Native Constabulary as in P.99730.VH, seated in re-arranged order outside the same house, this time behind two stacks of their new Martini Henry rifles, the stack behind them in P.99730.VH apparently having been deemed to be too shy. Early 1880s - the colonial capital was transferred to Suva in southeast Vitilevu in 1882, and the A.N.C went with it, taking the names of Nasova and Draiba with them - indeed, the Fiji police barracks in Suva are still at Nasova, hard by the grounds of Government House.
See P.99729.VH for details of uniform, thence through to P.99732.VH. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Viti Levu; Suva

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

?1880 - 1886

Collection Name

von Hügel Collection

Source

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.99725.VH to P.99758.VH were in the belted folder now numbered C539/1/. This 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 print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 8/1/2012]

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