IDNO

P.99820.VH

Description

View of about half of one side of a chiefly house featuring excellent thatching and gasau (Miscanthus foridulus) cane wall panelling. Unusual little rectangular window hole in wall framed by canes which have been bound ornamentally with magimagi or coconut fibre cordage. The house stands on a stone faced yavu mound, and has a stone ramp running up to its end door. The protruding end of the ridge-pole is capped by a trumpet shaped cone cut from the butt of a balabala (Cyathea lunulata) treefern trunk. The house is within a fenced compound, with a fenced lane beyond it, households often being fenced off within villages in pre-Christian times, with the interior of the village traversed by lanes bounded by the various compound fences.
1870s. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1870 - 1880

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]