IDNO

P.99786.VH

Description

F.H. Dufty photographs of A.J.L. Gordon’s sketch of “Nasaucoko and Nakorovou, Feb. 1876”.
See P.100053.VH, P.100054.VH. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

F.H. Dufty photograph of Arthur J.L. Gordon’s sketch of “Nasaucoko and Na Koro Vou [Nakorovou]”, February 1876, which Baron von Hugel has captioned “Fortified town & Camp of armed constabulary (during the war)”, the war being Sir Arthur Gordon’s “Little War” against so-called rebel Vitilevu highlanders in 1876. Ditched and palisaded Nasaucoko, occupied by people of the recently converted Namataku tribe, is in the foreground, with the ditched, banked and palisaded Nakorovou (literally “the new town”) or Armed Native Constabulary camp behind it. The defences of the camp mimic those of a Fijian korowaiwai or ring-ditch fort. Most of the houses are of the ‘beehive’ or conical-roofed, centre-poled type characteristic of western Vitilevu. Nasaucoko lies alongside the Waitabucake tributary of the Tubuniwai or Sigatoka River. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, from record P.100053.VH, JD 10/1/2012]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; West Viti Levu; Tubuniwai River; Waitabucake Tributary; Nasaucoko; Nakorovou [Sigatoka River]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Gordon, Arthur J.L. [Original Artist]; Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka)

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

post February 1876

Collection Name

von Hügel Collection

Source

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.99759.VH to P.99825.VH were in the belted folder now numbered C539/2/. 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.

Publication: Image published in 'Thomas, Nicholas. 'The Islanders : The Pacific in the Age of Empire'. (New Haven, Conn. ; London: Yale UP, 2010), p.253, and captioned: "The village (in the foreground) and fort (behind) at Nasaucok, sketch by Arthur J.L. Gordon." [JD 02/12/2019]

Related Image: This commercial photograph appears more than once in the MAA Collections. There is no original negative. [JD 10/1/2012]

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