IDNO

P.99751.VH

Description

P.99750.VH to P.99754.VH: A set of four J.W. Lindt, Melbourne, prints of Beqa island firewalking.
P.99751.VH shows the raking out of what is left of the burning wood and embers, leaving the hot stones which have been piled and heated atop it in place in the lovo pit. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Viti Levu; Beqa

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Lindt, John William

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa ?1870 - ?1880

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]