IDNO

P.99809.VH

Description

Canoes anchored at Waikava, southern Vanualevu, November 1876.
See P.100319.VH. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

“Waikava. Meeting of chiefs. Large single and double canoes. Nov. 1877.” [von Hügel’s caption]
The date should be November 1876, not 1877. The occasion being the bosevakaturaga or Great Council of Chiefs meeting called by the governor, Sir Arthur Gordon, at Waikava or Fawn Harbour on the south coast of Vanualevu. The voyaging canoes include both medium-sized drua - so-called double canoes but actually canoes with hulled outriggers - and camakau, with solid wooden outriggers, all of them equipped with deckhouses. [Fergus Clunie, 17/10/2003, from record P.100319.VH, JD 2/2/2012]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; South Vanua Levu; Waikava

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

November 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.

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