IDNO

P.99843.VH

Description

F.H. Dufty studio portrait of Yadi Arieta Kuila, eldest daughter of Ratu Seru Cakobau, Vunivalu of Bau, and Yadi Samanunu.
Circa 1875. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Studio portrait of Yadi Arieta Kuila, daughter of Cakobau. The woman is wearing an off the shoulder striped bodice and flowers in her hair of both sides, and appears to be seated. [JD 27/11/2011, from record P.52467.VH, JD 31/3/2012]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; ?Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Yadi Arieta Kuila, daughter of Ratu Seru Cakobau, Vuniivalu of Bau, Tui Viti (formerly spelt as Thakombau)

Photographer

Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka)

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1875

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.

Publication: A copy of this print is published in ‘The Fiji Journals of Baron Anatole Von Hugel 1875 - 1877’, edited by Jane Roth and Steven Hooper (1990), plate 30a, page 176, where the woman is named as Yadi Arieta Kuila, daughter of Cakobau. [Alex Nadin, 17/2/2003]

Related Image: This commercial photograph appears more than once in the MAA Collections. There is no original negative. [JD 13/1/2012]

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