IDNO

P.99749.VH

Description

A group of plantation workers, all male and equipped and dressed for dancing, standing next to a field of sugar cane. Some wear cloth isulu, a few with leather belts, others barkcloth malo loincloths with likusausauwai overskirts, some of them beaded. Most are armed with gadi pole clubs and/or iula throwing clubs, one with a felling axe. Throat ornaments include a few white cowry shell pendants and a beaded necklace. A row of boys, some solemnly pretending to peruse books, so proudly literate, in the foreground.
Circa 1877. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa ?1877

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]