IDNO

P.99801.VH

Description

F.H. Dufty photograph of the beach at Levuka with canoes and trading schooners lying just offshore. The man at centre on the beach is carrying an iuli or steering oar. The smaller flanking canoes nearest the beach are camakau (literally “wooden outrigger”) sailing outriggers, the larger two being drua or so-called double canoes, actually a sailing canoe with an outrigger hull or cama which is considerably smaller and of different configuration to the hull, or kata.
Circa 1876. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka)

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 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.

Related Image: This print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 11/1/2012]

Related Image: Same image held at the Royal Collection Trust, reference Albumen print | RCIN 2580899, and captioned as: "Viti: canoes on the beach, Levuka, Fiji  1881.
Photograph of sailing boats, Fijians and canoes on beach.
Provenance - The Album 'Cruise of H.M.S. Bacchante 1879-1882. Volume IV, Australia, Fiji' was compiled by the Reverend J N Dalton (1839-1931) and presented to King George V." [Source: https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/search#/22/collection/2580908/fijian-police-nasova, JD 04/04/2017]

Biographical Information: Reverend (later Canon) John Neale Dalton KCVO CMG (24 September 1839 Margate, Kent – 28 July 1931) was a Church of England clergyman and author. He was a chaplain to Queen Victoria, a Canon of Windsor, and tutor and chaperone / companion to the future King George V and his brother Prince Albert Victor from c.1869 until 1882. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Neale_Dalton, JD 4/5/2017]

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