IDNO

P.99813.VH

Description

P.99812.VH and P.99813.VH; Two slightly different F.H. Dufty photographs taken outside of the same house at Draiba on the east coast of Ovalau, both with Charles Eyre, the clerk to the Commissioner of Lands, standing in doorway, wearing a white coat and his silly little hat. The vale has a ditch dug round it crossed by a single coconut log bridge.
In this picture a few young girls are present but otherwise boys and a few men have replaced the women. The man at right with tobe ringlets behind his head is wearing a qato or trochus shell bracelet. Two youths have donned chiefly iwabale shoulder sashes for the occasion. One youth holds a shotgun, another a club. Good details of everyday dress of the time.
Circa 1876.
See P.99823.VH and P.99824.VH. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; East Ovalau Island; Draiba

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Charles Eyre (Charlie)

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 12/1/2012]

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