IDNO

P.99840.VH

Description

“Thakombau’s brother” - see P.99842.VH. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

F.H. Dufty photograph of Ratu Josefa Celua, the brother of Ratu Seru Cakobau, Vunivalu of Bau.
The portrait has been cropped to form a head and shoulders portrait of a bearded man. The original photograph is a group portrait of Ratu Seru Cakobau, Vunivalu of Bau and other high chiefs, seated in front of the same chief’s house at Waikava on the south coast of Vanualevu. In the uncropped version it can be seen that Ratu Josefa Celua is wearing a gatuvakatoga wrapper, and sitting astride the log ramp to a chief’s house holding a knife. ... The occasion was the council of chiefs or bosevakaturaga which the governor, Sir Arthur Gordon, convened at Waikava in November 1877. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, from record P.99842.VH , updated JD 26/11/2011]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; South Vanua Levu; Waikava

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Ratu Josefa Celua

Photographer

Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka)

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.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.

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Fund. [A Nadin, 10/9/2003]