IDNO

P.99795.VH

Description

A banyan or baka (Ficus obliqua) tree with a Fijian man and two European men and two European women posing beneath it. The younger right hand man might be Frank Witherow of Lakena. Near Nausori on the Rewa River.
1870s - early 1880s. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Viti Levu; Rewa River; Near Nausori

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

?Frank Witherow

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1870 - 1885

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]