IDNO

P.99828.VH

Description

P.99827.VH to P.99831.VH; Photographs of A.J.L. Gordon’s sketch of Yadi Samanunu, a chief’s daughter, drawn at Nabulibuligone in the highlands of Vitilevu in 1875. Yadi Samanunu is wearing a liku skirt and has a qato bracelet made from a sici or trochus shell above the left elbow, and a necklace with large beads of unknown material round her neck. Her lime-bleached hair is dressed in the unmarried woman’s style in the highlands. From the look of her, she may, as a chief's daughter, be tabusiga - literally “forbidden the sun”, meaning kept indoors during daylight hours to lighten her complexion. She is sitting next to a matadravu or hearth bounded by squared hardwood slabs, in which a kuro cooking pot from the Ra or northeast Vitilevu coast is steaming, perched upon sue potstands. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, updated JD 7/3/2012]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Yadi Samanunu

Photographer

Gordon, Arthur J.L. [Artist]

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

post 1875

Collection Name

von Hügel Collection

Source

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Format

Photomechanical Print

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.99726.VH to P.100050.VH were in the belted folder now numbered C539/3/. 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.

Bibliographical Reference: See A.J.L. Gordon, 1875. An Account of Mr Walter Carew’s Tour of the Island of Viti Levu, Domodomo, 1986, 4 (2), 55-81. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Named Person: It is noted that Yadi Samanunu’s Christian name is Litia for print P.99835.VH. The Description and Named Person field have been amended accordingly. [JD 7/3/2012]

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