IDNO

P.99789.VH

Description

A high chief’s house at Tavuki, Kadavu island. Though furnished with a wooden door and six paned window sash, it is otherwise traditional Fijian, proclaiming high status via it raised stone-faced yavu mound with cleated ramp leading up to its doorway, and the white bulidina cowry shells covering the long projecting ends of its ridge-pole and studding the long ropes that fall from the ends of the ridge-pole to the ground - which last feature used to be characteristic of some burekalou or spirithouses.
1870s. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Kadavu Island; Tavuki

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

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.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.

Related Image: This print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 9/1/2012]

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