IDNO

P.99798.VH

Description

See P.100073.VH. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

F.H. Dufty photograph of Toko village on the South East coast of Ovalau, with men dressed in make-believe Fijian war costume but armed with a medley of Melanesian weapons supposedly menacing each other in the foreground while a group of women look on. Instead of a qato or trochus shell armband, one has what looks like a large ring from the Solomon Islands round his upper arm. Early 1880s? [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, from record P.100073.VH, JD 11/1/2012]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; southeast Ovalau; Toko

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa ?1880 - 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.

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