IDNO

P.99742.VH

Description

Plantation workers dancing at the Ryder brothers’ plantation at Mago island, northern Lau Group while their white overseers look on.
Late 1870s - early 1880s. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; North Lau Group; Mago Island

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Ryder

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1877 - 1884

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]